RMP

I don't usually like discussing this site because I don't even look at it, but I looked at it for the first time today in a very long while because a student mentioned that a bitter classmate left a scathing review, and they wondered if I should take it down. (Like, ha ha, I don't run that site, but that proves that students seem to think everything with our names on it is legitimate, which is concerning.)

Well ... I can't just ignore a comment like that, so curiosity won, and the review was, indeed, exceptionally delusional but also downright harmful to leave as a public comment, as I had to reveal a medical diagnosis (cancer, no less) to explain to a class why exactly ONE class was canceled all semester. (When people talk about this generation of students being so compassionate, I do think of the 2-3 students who weaponized my medical treatment against me to say that is why they could not be successful in my class ... I feel like other generations would try to skate by but never like that. I'm well-treated and fine so far, by the way; I'm just pointing out that many students expect all compassion to funnel to them and not move the other way, too.)
Anyway, my point is that I flagged the review to no avail and then submitted a help request to have someone look at the utter bullshit they let fly on their website because while I revealed information to exactly one class, it was not meant to be public, and I got an auto reply that they are experiencing a higher than average volume of requests.

My point is: Do you think we could crash the site? If we collectively flag and comment everything, can we make them wish they never unleashed this on us? Can we finally rally 100% on something?

Although my reviews are mostly good, it did get under my skin to see some reviews that held blatant lies ... and I just know those punks got off on "getting even" with lying about what went on in the class :) I just don't want them to have the satisfaction, you know. I don't rant about them by name online.

I just feel like of all the indignities we have to suffer now, being rated like an Uber driver shouldn't be one of them, like, thank you, my goal is NOT customer happiness, so I don't know the goal of a site that functions like Yelp! for higher ed, in the first place.

I know, I know---DON'T LOOK AT IT. But wouldn't it be funny if professors finally fought back instead of just talked about doing it??? I'd love to see investors lose on a site like that.