Why I Have Never Visited My Rate My Professor Page
When I attended Carnegie Mellon, the Internet existed but the World Wide Web was just getting started. Students could complain about their professors but hardly in a way that would catch on. Back then, where were aggrieved students going to go? What were they really going to do?
Today, they go to Rate My Professors (RMP)βand have for nearly 20 years now. I've never been to my own page and, in this post, I'll explain why I'll never look at it.
Ratings Are Everywhere Today
We didn't previously rate our taxi drivers. Smartphones and Uber changed that. Ditto for Airbnb and our vacation rentals. It's not hard to envision a dystopian future in which we immediately and constantly rate each other. As usual, that's not necessary when Netflix's Black Mirror takes a crack at it:
It'll only take a moment.
