Some pages have ratings, others don’t have it anymore even though they had it before.
Example, this forum has a 3 bar green rating before and now). My blog used to have 1 bar green rating, but now it is grey without any ratings. What gives!? Also many pages that were truly clean and green are now grey. But some are green. WebRep seems a bit useless at the moment and even though i know there was a server issue, it seems like we’re goin from point zero again 
I’m sure it will improve (but I prefer Linkextend anyway for the wider survey of rating tools it gives)
Well hopefully your post will kick start some visits and get the webrep voting activity going, I just have ;D
WebRep completely froze my IE 9.
When I looked at add-ons there were two instancres of WebRep showing, although neither was listed as installed.
Weird. ???
Only removing WebRep solved it.
WebRep worked OK on Firefox, though.
The two add-ons are different - one is a toolbar and one is the BHO.
@ landsker
Sorry but your problem is totally unrelated to the specific problem discussed here about the loss of a sites rating not about the installation of webrep. So just confuses the topic.
RejZoR, there have been 2 or 3 short (15-30 minute) outages of the WebRep service today. It’s quite likely that the thing you have just described occurred during one of the outages.
Now, some info in WebRep is cached (for a limited time). That is, instead of doing repetitive cloud lookups all the time, the WebRep browser add-ons cache the data for some time (typically 30 minutes). This explains why some sites have been green (even though the vast majority was grey) – these were most likely the URLs that you visited a while ago.
Now of course, we do realize that these outages are unacceptable and the WebRep backend cluster is in a state far from ideal. As promised, early next week, we’re rolling out a bunch of new servers + updating the server bits to a new version, which will hopefully greatly improve the reliability of the service.
Thanks
Vlk
i look forward to those improvements, theyre most certainly needed.
I need to get more friends and relatives to upgrade to AIS to help Avast pay for the new servers and electric bill!
Bill
Thx for explanation Vlk.
Concerning WebRep, disregarding the server-question, I still am not sure what exactly this AddOn does and what added value it brings?
When I click on the icon, it prompts: “How do you like this site?”
Like?
Content-wise? Security-wise? Technical-wise?
A green rating does not mean necessarily that the site is “clean” from virus-infection point of view. It just says that a lot of people “like” this site… a lot of people like porn, a lot of people like hacker & crack sites, a lot of people like movies with nauseous violence…
I’m missing the overall concept behind webrep and the way ahead.
When you look at WOT you will see that despite them having several categories users tend to vote the same way for all of them (with the exception of the adult rating). When you search the internet you want the results to be relevant. Some domains are definitely more useful than others when it comes to this. Also some domains tend to clutter your screen or browser with popups and other annoying and/or off-topic stuff that you really do not care about. As a result you are either happy or annoyed with your experience - I realize this does not sound very technical. It might be useful to some people and not useful to others. The choice is yours. In phase 2 we plan to add a bit of viruslab intel to the rating symbols in order to provide both the soft categories and the security stats.
That is something that will definetely make WebRep more valuable. I like that. 
My point is this: when you introduce something like WebRep and you invite people to vote, then perhaps it would be helpful to give them some kind of advice on how to vote. Just “I like” from red to green is not a real guideline.
Maybe something like a bubble-text when hovering over red, orange and green saying “Green: this site is safe to surf and the content is not illegal”.
As it is now, the WebRep just leaves the user / voter to wild guessing as what the color-coding really means.
Silly me! Thinking about malware protection in conjunction with Avast!, I went ahead & installed WebRep - mistakingly thought it was probably similar to AVG Link Scanner or IE Smart Screen Filter, But I’m quite disappointed & will most likely disable & / or dump it.
I go to any particular web sites / pages because I think it might contain what I am looking for. I really don’t care how many people ‘like” or don’t “like” a web page or site. I think popularity of websites is outside the scope of supposed anti-malware software. I agree that illegal activity & adult-only content is perhaps relevant & should be warned against. But nailing malware should always be the #1 priority & focus of Avast! From internet security software, I expect instant, thorough, reliable, & effective protection from malware - PERIOD! I thought we already had that with the real-time shields. Popularity is a totally different thing from malware protection.
I am also disappointed in that the categories do not include my most frequent use for the internet, educational / informational (usually not blogs or news). Political is another category that I think is missing. Professional (not necessarily “corporate”) is another possibility. The categories in WebRep: Shopping, social / gaming, News / Blog, IT / Download, Corporate, Pornography, Weapons / Violence, Gambling, Alcohol / drugs, Warez / Illegal really mostly don’t fit what I do on the internet, which is mostly research on literally thousands of subjects. The Webrep categories make it seem that the internet is nothing but a big virtual mall, casino / social club, IT info & software source, also a source for porn, weapons, & illegal copyrighted software downloads. For incurable knowledge seekers like myself, the internet is SOOOOO much more!
Another problem I noticed just today is that a single web page can be rated in direct conflict with another page of the same web site. Today I went to uslegal.com (rated green) & then to a perfectly good webpage on the same site titled “Sunshine Laws Law & Legal Definition” which was rated RED! That told me how worthless Webrep really is for a non-groupie like me. What do I need Webrep for, anyway? ???
Maybe you don’t…?
As they said;
So as of right now, if keeping it hurts, removing it certainly won’t. 