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[janice shell]

Again more of the same in the above post. Just filled with a lack of actual facts. Those rating systems are reviewed by schools and the professors themselves.

Let's start with this actual fact, then: long ago, I taught at Boston College for awhile. So I have actual experience of this.

Who better to provide feedback then the people being "subjected" and/or paying to/for the teaching?

I think that may seem a more convincing argument now that it did decades ago, because the cost of higher education has increased so much. But still, in many ways, students aren't qualified to judge. One of the questions always asked is whether the teacher knows his or her subject well. At the undergraduate level, most students have no way to judge that. They're taking the course because THEY don't know anything, or don't know enough, about the subject in question.

I am again suggesting that we do something that allows reputation for all members not just moderators. This should remove the dissent from those who responded to me (many if not all are serial moderators) and I would not expect that persona to agree to be "moderated" by members.

Again: As TV Dad says, it's not a popularity contest.