The trust coloring has an odd side effect -- the color draws the reader's
attention to the least-trusted text.

I just checked out some pages that I know well, and the system works great.
The highlighted text is always the most questionable on the page. But I
found that as I read down the page, my eye was always drawn towards the
orange. Partly, it's because color is eye-catching, but there's also
something inherently interesting about seeing the flaws. It's kind of like
rubbernecking at a car accident -- when I saw orange on the page, I had to
know what was "untrustworthy" about that text.

So as I was reading, I was skipping over the "good" text so that I could pay
attention to the "bad" text. This is definitely helpful for people who want
to fix up the page, because it points out trouble spots that need to get
fixed. But I'd be interested to see what the impact is on casual readers,
using a system that specifically highlights the flaws.

When readers use this system, do they end up trusting Wikipedia as a source
of information more, or less?


-- Danny
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