Wikipedia:School and university projects/Open Source Culture/Culpa

This is a website started by a couple of Columbia students that works as a forum to review Columbia professors. It has some elements of the Open Source idea in that it is a forum for people to post and build off of other entries. The basic idea is that someone will post a review then other students may post 'independent' reviews or respond in some manner to a previous review. However, this system does not allow people to alter others' reviews.

Initially, the website took all reviews. But now it seems as if the operators of the website have exerted more control over the entries as the site has gained in popularity. They do not accept all reviews. This new filtering and editing done by a select few does not seem to follow Open Source ideals. The website seems to be an anti-example of how sheer mass entries do not benefit the original intent. It is my assumption that the filtering started because there were simply too many entries to read through, making it time consuming and unwieldy to use the website to simply check up on a professor.