First, thanks for coming. Secondly, if you’ve come to the blog we assume you want to know more about 101Ratings.com and what we’re up to. Here are the basics, and we’ll answer more questions and provide more information in future posts.
What is 101Ratings.com?
101Ratings.com aims to be the one place to go for all things rating and reputation related. It is a site for reference, fun, and exploration. We list as many rating sites as we know about, including the fun ones.
We also want our users to participate. We can scour some of the web for rating sites, but certainly not all of it.
Who runs 101Ratings.com?
The site was created by Aaron Schiff, an economist, who writes the 26econ blog, with a good deal of of help and moral support from Alex Kirtland, a user experience designer, who writes the blog UsableMarkets.
What an you do to help us?
You can blog about us. You can talk about us. Most of all, though, you can submit rating sites!
Thanks, and welcome.
2 Comments
I want to ask you why you forbid sites that sell stuff on their site? Perhaps they should need a higher standard to be included, but I think it is a mistake to ban them outright. My best example of a site that allows reviews and sells what they are reviewing is Amazon. Amazon is almost ALWAYS my first stop when I want to learn about a book. I find it super useful.
jsalvati: Good question. There are a couple of reasons. First, we want to focus on sites where the main activity is rating things rather than selling things. Second, there are a large number of e-commerce sites that sell things and allow customers to rate these products. Including all these would basically turn our directory into a directory of e-commerce sites rather than a directory of rating sites.
As you said, this policy means we have to exclude useful sites like Amazon. On the other hand, I think almost everyone knows about Amazon already, so excluding it doesn’t really make our directory less useful, I think.