Hi Folks, I just had a very pleasant phone conversation with Griffen Davis, V. P. Marketing at www.collegestudents.com. They are very open to input both from faculty and students and they are working to maintain a site that will be useful to students. In regards to students comments, they periodically filter posts for extreme profanity and extremely harmful comments. Basically, it sounds as if they filter for some of those outrageous posts that I stumbled across. If it has mild profanity and reports that the instructor is rotten, that will stay (as personally, I think it should - I had some of those folks along the way!) In the future (next couple of months), they plan on redesigning the site so that the username (clickable) will be attached to each comment. Additionally, the professor will have a place to respond to the comments. This should provide a measure of accountability. The bottom line is that if you visit the site and see a very problematic post (about yourself or others), you can contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] or call 1-888-915-6200 to report your concerns. This, of course, does not guarantee that the post will be removed but does provide a measure of recourse. I was so reassured by my conversation, that I mentioned that my university wasn't even listed. For my colleagues who are also on the list - no need to thank me ;-) linda -- linda m. woolf, ph.d. associate professor - psychology webster university main webpage: http://www.webster.edu/~woolflm/ Holocaust and genocide studies pages: http://www.webster.edu/~woolflm/holocaust.html womens' pages: http://www.webster.edu/~woolflm/women.html gerontology pages: http://www.webster.edu/~woolflm/gero.html mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
