RateMyProfessorsReviews of ratemyprofessor.com

How come I can't write a rating. I didn't include profanity or anything that violated the guidelines at all and their detector just wouldn't let me RATE MY PROFESSOR. Really frustrating and poorly designed.

My professor was creating a toxic class environment, and I wanted to post publibly to warn people. I normally don't want to post reviews at all, but my experience was so awful that I had to. According to their guidelines, you cannot "claim that the professor is biased for or against students." So, what if the professor IS doing that? That creates a power imbalance between professor and student, in favor of the professor. And the student can't report that? It refused to post my review because it didn't "meet the guidelines," even though I did not claim or imply biased treatment. I had to shorten my review down to "toxic environment, had to walk on eggshells around him," just so it would post. And who knows if they'll actually post or show it? And why does that site have a character limit of 350? That's nowhere near enough to explain the situation and give proper context.

I am a professor. There are other professors that I know for a fact not only write their own positive reviews, but they also get their own bad reviews removed. They also leave bad reviews for teachers they don’t like. There should be a serious notification. I’m going to be telling everyone I teach about how deceptive they are. They won’t remove my false reviews and have NO customer service, but they will allow people to flag and remove my reviews for no reason and let others keep false reviews. A JOKE of a website.

This is the worst platform - why do we need to rate our educators like restaurants on Yelp. Part of learning is to deal w/ different circumstances. And if there are real behavioral problems w/ the instructors, there are many avenue to pursue fair treatments. Try the dept chair, to start. All the negative comments come from students who don't themselves fulfill their responsibilities, as simple as showing up, or read the required materials. But the greatest flaw of this platform, is that they do not screen the comments against their own terms of use and guidelines at all, and there's no response allowed from the professors - unlike Yelp. Then we can get an equal opportunity to judge for ourselves if the claim is valid or just someone venting. Until there is a RateMyStudent, platforms like this does not help w/ educating our next generations.

Not posting my review. I get it people spam reviews or use fake accounts but when im posting an actual review I expect it to show up. Having time to leave a review for a professor and now having it show up is horrible. This website needs to be fixed ASAP

They keep deleting negative comments when a professor requests it on their site. It is a very FLAWED website that has NO TRANSPARENCY.

I've had multiple truthful reviews taken down repeatedly about my classroom experience; now without so much as a notice let alone an explanation. Nothing profane, just hard truth, and for some reason. For example, I was the only one who left a negative review while meeting all the guideline policies. But, it still got taken down, while a 5-star review that was flagged was NOT taken down even though theirs did not follow guideline policy and contained contents that were discriminatory.

Rate My Professor is joke. It removes students honest reviews especially if a student mentions racism. Which is unfair