When you look at people who have been banned -- their shit has been deleted and/or cleaned up most of the time. You'll probably NEVER see what went down unless you were there to see it before it was removed.

Oh geez.

My opinion on the matter is that I don't mind the recruitment story threads so much (I read some, skip others, and particularly like the train wrecks) but I do get annoyed with the "can't wait to hear more!" and "where's the OP? I want more!" I think we should comment when the story is OVER OR if someone is full of shit. Comments like that just feed into the narcissistic "Is anyone reading????" crap.

ETA: I don't mind the word "fuck" or telling people to "fuck off." I'm a big girl. I've heard it before.

That makes sense, and I guess I didn't seem many real time posts by him anyway. I think I just saw the stuff that was left later.

I agree with this including the ETA although I'm over considering it particularly expressive most of the time too.

About the threads, I can understand wanting some indication that people are reading so you know that you aren't posting it for nothing and nobody, but I get annoyed by big delays.

I can't figure out why you'd start a big autobiographical thread and then fail to update it in 48 hour installments tops.

Maybe it's just me, but GC has always been like that ("anal retentive" or however you want to put it). The only time when I remember GC not being like that is when I first joined back in 2001, and that was mostly because there were so few people (comparatively) on site.

As the site got bigger, there were more interesting conversations and threads, but it also gave way to more drama and more of the "let's all just get along and hold hands" stuff that you're talking about. Maybe it's just me, but it doesn't seem like all that new of an issue.

I didn't want an official reason. I just wondered what you thought.

I don't care about all getting along in the sense of actually agreeing, and I'm as guilty of being a jerk in the political threads as anyone (maybe in other threads as well).

But I have always questioned completely going off on people in the recruitment sections where I feel like there's a legitimate reason to consciously think about making Greek life look bad. It's the one area about which people, I think, have an acceptable reason to be completely clueless.

I know I've flipped out on people too and that some people get under your skin and are doing it deliberately. But I'm not sure that asking for politeness in some areas is a bad thing.

Sweetie, don't you know you're in TEH CULT with me, lol.

I think we were kind of hoping it would be that kind of thread.

Do you all still have the daily snark PM thing? Maybe it was a briefly lived thing in the era of ________ but perhaps it reduced the overall public snark to boringly low levels.

Yes, we still communicate. No, not daily. And, no to the second part. _________ ran a lot of fun people off with her stalking. I can think of several. And those people were fun people.

LOL, awesome. This is why Kevin cracks me up sometimes.

I've never really given two craps who writes a recruitment thread or not. I'm over them at this point because there's so many fakers. Some were fun to read, but then we were flooded with bad writers, perps, and just r-tards. I'm so over it mainly because it seems like a not so thinly veiled show of "my org is better than yours because we got more NMs via GC".

Long live Chuck Norris' recruitment thread though...that was GC comedic genius.