Abstract: Validating electronic content by users includes providing, by a data processing system, electronic content to users for rating the electronic content based on rating metric(s), receiving, by the data processing system, a rating of the electronic content by at least some of the users based on the rating metric(s), each rating being a raw rating having a default weight, cognitively adjusting, by the data processing system, the default weight for each raw rating based on one or more of pre-rating user behaviors, a user rating history and a user credibility rating to arrive at an adjusted rating, using, by the data processing system, the adjusted rating to arrive at a total rating, and providing the total rating to the users.

Abstract: Validating electronic content by users includes providing, by a data processing system, electronic content to users, receiving, by the data processing system, the ratings of the electronic content by the at least some of the users based on the rating metric(s), each rating being a raw rating having a default weight, adjusting, by the data processing system, the default weight for each raw rating based on one or more of pre-rating user behaviors, a user rating history and a user credibility rating to arrive at an adjusted rating, using, by the data processing system, the adjusted rating to arrive at a total rating, and providing the total rating to the users.