Because we live in an egalitarian age where everyone has equally valid opinions about things and broad accessibility to mind-numbing technology, we have sites such as http://ratemyprofessor.com/.  It's every bit as exciting and informative as you think it would be with a name like that. 

I checked to see if anyone had rated me, after almost 10 years with the same post secondary institution.  Sure enough, I had a whopping one review (posted just last year about this time, actually).  Not surprisingly, the review was less than glowing.  This is not surprising not because I think I'm a bad instructor, but rather because human nature tends to be more apt to complain than to compliment.  However, when I surveyed some reviews for some other folks I know who teach, it was good to see that they had some positive comments, so apparently some people are motivated to go out and leave good notes.  Which leads me to believe that I still have a lot of room to grow as an instructor.  Hopefully I'll be that honest if I'm still teaching in some respect 30 years from now!

Anyways, as to the temptation.  Anyone can apparently leave a rating (anonymously, of course) for a professor, and it was immensely tempting to rate myself a tad more charitably than this individual did. 

However, I resisted.  At least on this one, small temptation, I resisted.   Thank God for minor victories.