List of Rating Sites

Below is a sampling of rating sites that have achieved some recognition and coverage.

Attractiveness

* Hot or Not — early rating site that allows users to rate photos posted by other users
* HotFlation - Rate attractiveness based on geographic location with relative scoring
* MySexyOutfit - Rate attractiveness based on Halloween costume

Professional

* RateMyProfessors.com — a "teacher rating site" founded in May 1999 by John Swapceinski, a software engineer from Menlo Park, California, that allows college and university students to anonymously assign ratings to professors of American, Canadian, British, Irish, New Zealand, and Australian institutions. The site contains more than six million ratings, for over 500,000 professors.

* RateMyTeachers — a spin-off of RateMyProfessors, used to rate elementary school, middle school and high school teachers' performance (and popularity) as a service to students, parents and the teachers themselves. Participants give numerical ratings on a scale of 1 to 5 in three different categories to their current or former teachers. Visitors can also leave an optional brief comment based on their experience with the teacher. Comments are screened by over 7,000 volunteer moderators for appropriateness.

* RateMyCop.com — is a review site that allows American citizens to give feedback on police officers. The website was launched on February 28, 2008 by Gino Sesto and Rebecca Costell of Culver City, California. The site launched with the names of over 140,000 officers from more than 500 police departments across the nation.

* TeachStreet — a "teacher rating site" founded in June 2007 by Dave Schappell in Seattle, WA, that allows students to anonymously assign ratings to teacherss of online and local American schools.

Sites with rating features

* MySpace
* Fotolog
* Yahoo