i think it really lies with the fact that chit chat is just that---a place to shoot the shit about things that may or may not be important. anyone and everyone, greek or not, can relate to most of the topics because they don't have to do with being greek.

i don't think ANY of the NPC/IFC boards have problems either. so i don't think we should be comparing chit chat to NPHC alone. the specific boards are places where members or PNMs can go and talk about the org. these people USUALLY are either members or potential members. chit chat is not.

if anyone comes on to a specific GLO board and starts posting crap, whether it's the AXO, DST, AKA, or KKG board, the members and moderators immediately spring into action. these people are warned about their behavior and sometimes even investigated into to find out a real identity. these people who start drama usually want to be a member and just don't understand that they are completely out of line (until they're so tactfully told!!!) but since most want membership at some time, they change their tune.

now, on the chit chat or greek life forums, it is a community forum where greeks and non greeks all talk together. so you're not going to have the cohesiveness of a specific board. there are dozens of different groups that use the forums.

that's my take on the whole situation. i really don't think the chit chat forums should be compared to the NPHC forums. they're completely different. if we were comparing NPC and NPHC, then i could see a connection.

now, as to why certain groups do or do not use the chit chat and greek life forums, that is beyond me.

In reading this, I find that NHPC and NIC/NPC do not understand each other. Am I correct?:confused:

While In the Paedegogus of LXA, it list pictures of Badges and Pledge pins of NIC/NPC but Not NHPC. Old Book!

I did not Know and have seen AP Badge on ebay wondering what the heck it was! It was so plain and to the point that it was and is beautiful!

Well, if any follow the Alum Thread, I found out. Through Jills Posts of which all of us as Greeks gave her a lot of good goes, good luck, way to go and Congrats when she became a PNAIM!:)

My problem in reading this is that all of a sudden, we are back to the Old ______--------Differences of R--e!????

We can all learn from each other and that is the way it should be!

If I am error, you may write me!:eek:

I remember a thread way back when, that in doing GC, We Did Not Know Who was of what, only Greeks!

I will never again be chastised for being ignorant, that is my fault, but some do not need to point out to everyone else!

We have our faults, but if this site is turned into a I/We, just what the hell good are we and just what are We Trying to do??:confused:

Yet another reason I like reading the AKA and DST boards.

Oh munchkin, slap me and call me silly/stupid!:(

If that is your feelings, from my post, I feel so sad/sorry for you!:confused:

I am not familiar with any other posts you may have but could you clarify what you are saying?

I understood Tom's post perfectly.

No Tom, we aren't really discussing that...though it could easily have become a subtopic. Ya know something funny-I don't know half the time either because one-it doesn't mean a thing one way or the other a smart, funny, kind person is a smart, funny, kind person, period. Second-I've got scrambled eggs for brains sometimes and the memory discards things that aren't important. THAT is not important.

Cashmere made such a darn good point. If someone came into the AXO forum and started crap, I know our Mods as well as our regular posters would jump all over it. Chit Chat is more public and we get so many fruitcakes intermittently that sometimes it becomes a free-for-all. Good post Cashmere!

edited-See, I didn't even put the "78" in Cash78mere's name. I just think of her as soft and warm like cashmere.

what an interesting topic! being kind of a "nerd," i love to watch patterns in people's behavior. i have actually wondered this myself. there are some nphc members that i see post in a variety of forums. i occasionally stop by the aka forum...but i have never posted there. i had never heard that there is an older crowd posting in the nphc forums and i think that explains a lot. honestly, many of the topic in chit chat are kind of silly and unintersting to those of us who are out of college. it is not a bad thing, but topics that are interesting to college-aged students and those out of college are very different.

I am sure they both look forward to your insightful commentary...

I thought grapes were green.

Nice post count.

He he he ...

OK, you've finally won me over, Grapist!!

I'm not greek but I'm interested in an org. who is a member of the NPHC. I don't visit GC because I'm bored and want to chit chat. I'm trying to complete a goal and meet people who can guide me through this journey. My co-worker told me that she USE to be in a sorority back in college. Joining a NPHC is a life long commitment that is taken very seriously by those involved. That's why I've never posted here and never thought about posting here. Besides, I can hardly relate to the topics here. It's nothing personal against any group at all for me.

well-put . . .

also, the chit-chat regulars may want to take a quick jaunt through old threads, especially those that dealt with race relations etc, and see the sort of crap that goes on there. There's another, less frustrating option available, and so it is being used, and effectively at that. Sounds pretty self-explanatory to me.

edited to remove sig from serious topic