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there's no point for that. in addition, ratings can be seeded by bots or providers who pay for reviews.
It's very easy to do your own research, especially with the numerous provider comparison tables out there.
In addition, each host has something that it does best, so a simple rating system would not work well.
but we have poll for best provider, which is similar http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/best-low-end-providers-in-2011-q2-its-ram-host-quickweb-and-buyvm-again/
Yea, and there was multiple cases of providers downvoting each other.
Francisco
One way to stop that is take note of all IP's of providers on this forum who've posted as well as when they posted on LEB and prevent them from down voting. Also it's typically easy to separate residential IP's from company IP's so they could put that in place. The could block Tor like I do for ratings on my site, and public proxies, as well as pay attention as to how they vote. That doesn't block providers from voting at home entirely but it'd definitely drop some/most of the abuse. Simply laying down the rule, if you're a provider you're not allowed to down vote a competitor would be effective to as most providers here seem very professional and honest.
I browse LET from my VPN.
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The providers admitted to it and claimed it was 'to test the system', but the votes still counted in the final tallies :P The last votes required the user having an account on here as well as a few upvotes to stop mass vote ups.
Francisco
It's pretty easy to verify legit reviews. Reviewers could just submit the domain they have hosted with the provider (must have public whois). Then before the review is published, the site owner verifies the domain. Not hard.
@subigo could, but this is not WHT
if that is difficult... what is the best way for newcomers to look for good providers with available stock? just hard earned research work?
@subigo I think lot's of people won't be comfortable with that. A better verification would be a simple .txt file containing "Hello LEB/LET!" or something.
And...
I also think that this is quite far from happening. We can't even have the old poll back.
@jcaleb
While I'm rating providers for myself, I don't publish the results. It's better to read the comments on LET/LEB, even if they don't always match my own experience.
OTOH, you can check my VPS chart. It is still a work in progress but the values are all real.
@hostingwizard_net nice man! thanks for sharing