Originally Posted by AOII_LB93 (Post 1517375)

Wow...see what happens when I go to work again?:) Could someone PM me with what happy pony rainbow land is if you don't want to post it? I must have missed that part of the convo. :o

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog (Post 1517396)

Happy Pony Rainbow land is the site that BatShit and Earpie created together where everyone is welcome to post about anything they want - so long as they agree with Batshit and Earpie, and it qualifies as sunshine up the ass.

It's almost exactly like GC in format, and in fact they stole several announcements and posts from here. They didn't even bother to change "GreekChat" to their forum's name, they just cut and pasted.

Anyone who they feel is being attacked here, they PM (Subject: Tom Earp, I'm sure) to come over to their site. Funny though, most of those people who have become active posters over there are still just as active over here.

GC really IS like crack, apparently - the methadone just doesn't do. They need the real deal.

Originally Posted by Jen (Post 1517422)

500lbs married to goats with herpes people need sisterhood too!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle (Post 1517428)

Ummm . . .I don't like the Gamma Phi part of that - can we request a do-over???:rolleyes:

Originally Posted by Jen (Post 1513796)

Tons of people have managed to find their way to GC and become part of the community over the years. Those that find it easy to mesh with the GC culture are people who have thick skins, know their shit and either lurk for a long time to get the feel of the place, or they do their searching and research so they avoid posting things we've all seen a million times.

My advice for newbies - lurking is the best advice that I can give outside the words USE SEARCH. If I was showing up as a newbie, I'd try and watch the atmosphere, suss out what the place is like, then start posting on a few innocuous social threads in Chit Chat before I'd jump into serious conversation that I might not realize the history to in this place.

If you're coming on here because you have a specific question, make sure it hasn't been answered before (it mostly likely has; be creative with searching). Be polite when you ask. If you get snarked at, ignore it - even better, check yourself. You might be a trainwreck waiting to happen.


*Use of the word 'you' is strictly for demo purposes only. No specific 'you' is being addressed. If you think you're 'you', then you're mistaken. You're not 'you'.*

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle (Post 1515942)

Originally Posted by mystikchick (Post 1517599)

Truer words were never spoken. I realize I haven't been registered here for a long time, but I lurked for a good year or something like that before joining to ask a question. Before I posted that question, I did my research, went to the website in question, sent an email, and THEN came and posted. What was the result? I got support and extremely helpful advice about how to proceed. No snark, no nastiness, nothing.

It's not necessarily that people are mean, but when you (again, a GENERAL you) come on, post something that could easily be answered by a search, don't take the time to browse around the site but leap straight to posting your new thread, and compound those sins with unintelligible grammar and attitude when called out on stuff instead of attempting to explain yourself in a clearer, more reasonable manner, well, you're asking for it. And for pete's sake, don't take things so personally. It's the internet.

Originally Posted by mystikchick (Post 1517599)

ETA: Clearly this thread has gone other places since Jen posted, but I wanted to get in my two cents.

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle (Post 1517428)

Ummm . . .I don't like the Gamma Phi part of that - can we request a do-over???:rolleyes: