Blogging has moved college professors' frustration with their students beyond water cooler conversation and onto the World Wide Web.

Rateyourstudents.blogspot.com, created and maintained by an anonymous "tenured humanities professor from a college in the South," posts discussions submitted online by other professors, and sometimes students. The site was created in response to the popular Web site RateMyProfessors. com.

While RateMyProfessors.com is constructed like a formal rating system that publishes students' ratings of their professors based on criteria such as clarity and difficulty, the rateyourstudents.blogspot.com does not use any numerical ratings system.

The site's creator, who refers to himself as "the Professor," said remaining anonymous is important for his own classroom dynamic.

"I have a lot of freshmen in my classes, and I don't know if an 18-year-old would quite understand what I am doing," he said.

The Professor said he started the site after a colleague was rated poorly on RateMyProfessor.com.

"He was a great teacher with a family and received slanderous and homophobic comments," he said. "He was embarrassed and lost a little of his spirit."

The Professor said RateMyProfessor. com is a car-wreck of information and character assassination because the site does not prevent students from rating teachers at schools outside of their own.

"If you go to Penn State, you should only be permitted to rate Penn State professors," he said.

Online posts have echoed his frustrations with the popular site.

One professor in New York posted, "I found myself on RMP last week and wanted to scream. I've worked my butt off teaching for slave wages and taking classes for the last three years. And yet I get a puke-green face."

The Professor said he started the site as a parody that would seek revenge on RateMyProfessors.com while also creating a forum for students and faculty to better understand each other. He is now receiving about 200 e-mail contributions each day.

"Although I have not viewed the site, it sounds like a professor who has too much time on his hands and should invest more time in teaching or research or both," Communications and Law Professor Clay Calvert said.

Astronomy Professor Eric Feigelson said he is aware of RateMyProfessors.com but does not recognize the new rateyourstudents.blogspot.com.

"I have not checked my rating," he said. "But [rateyourstudents.blogspot.com] strikes me as impolite."

"RateMyProfessors is actually useful when choosing classes," Kait Dalsey (sophomore-pre-medicine) said. "But rateyourstudents just seems immature and unprofessional."

Besides posting grievances of professors and retorts from students, the site also allows professors to write reviews of students, which remain unnamed.

A history professor in Indiana, who submitted a summary review of several students referred to with single initials, wrote, "Avoid this student if you can. She spends more on eyeliner than she does on textbooks. She wears more face powder than a 60-year-old stripper. She believes she's destined for greatness. She's destined to work at a laundromat."

Not all entries are negative. A student nicknamed "Bourgeois Nerd" submitted a post expressing his support for the site. He said, "I always wondered what you guys really though of us. I always wanted to be a fly on the wall at department meetings and get-togethers."