The Lies Stop Today. *** WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY THE, WELL, I THOUGHT I WAS THE REAL REAL GORDON PRESTO ***

Good evening, all.

I don't actually know the whole story yet, but this morning someone asked for posting rights - along with a few others today - and I sent him one. After he got the invite he appears to have started an account (using the user name "Real Gordon Presto"), and then all the rest of it ensued. He's no longer a registered user, but I've logged his email and IP in case he comes back for another go around.

It seems to me to be a relatively elaborate joke, and in a very odd way, I'm wishing I'd thought of doing it myself. (Although there's no way I could stand that left hand margin image placement. That is just SO wrong.)

I thought I'd leave the post up because it's so nutty.

Let us marvel at it briefly and then fill the page tomorrow with some real misery. I must now go and write up a few new Archie / Ben posts and comments.

Gordon Presto

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A hoax has been perpetrated on all of you sucker readers.

This blog has lied to you, just as the previous Rate My Students did. I will post the truth for you, so you will know how you've been taken. It is my hope that the person behind the page - who I will name for you - won't take this post down until the 40 or 50 actual readers of the page see it and quit this site forever.

MAIN LIES:

• Only one person has ever run this page. He's an English professor, failed at his career. He also is the only person who ran RMS.
• The hits for this page are vastly overcounted. The page only gets about 100 hits per day, many of them duplicates by the small group of real readers.
• The ads for this page generate FAR MORE MONEY than is let on. A single Amazon ad, for example can generate $500-1500 dollars a day. Google ads, or "click words" generate more than $100 dollars for every click. Even on a poorly trafficked space like this there are thousands of dollars a month generated.
• NONE OF THIS MONEY GOES TO CHARITY OR THE RED CROSS. It's all kept by the one person who has run all of these websites for years. He spends it on himself and laughs at the profits.

SECONDARY LIES:

• Many of the commenters are just a few people. Angry Archie and Beaker Ben both write to this blog from the same computer. And they are not the ONLY ONES. There are many writers who simply make several names to create the illusion of a busy page. And the moderator is the MAIN CULPRIT, generating as many as a dozen different nicknames for himself. (He is Stella, Ancillary Adjunct, Southern Bubba, and many others.)
• Many of these commenters steal material from other academic bloggers, changing a few words and then republish them here. It's been going on for years, and it's disgraceful.
• I know all of these things because I WORK WITH THE REAL PERSON behind these pages in a college in Arizona. I HAVE BONAFIDE EVIDENCE of all of this and will reveal it if he/she does not take this page down immediately.
• I was once a very popular "correspondent" on this page and the other. And I do not have an ax to grind. I simply believe that the truth is more important than lining the pockets of this person.

I call myself the real Gordon Presto because I know how this page works and can provide all the evidence necessary.

Mr. Moderator, take this page down right now or I will reveal your identity to everyone.