Seriously, peeps. No one REALLY cares about your stupid rush story.
 

C'mon.

If you aren't currently about to pledge, pledged more than a year ago, OR you left GC hanging in suspense for YEARS wondering where you went, THEN STOP MAKING THESE INANE DAMN RETRO RUSH STORIES.

Seriously. We don't care.

Signed,

Those of us who really matter.

Edited to add: Yes, I realize GC has some really sad people who care about this shit. They are the "Kitchen" GChatters we try to lock up in the kitchen so no thinks the majority are like them. They are closely related the the "basement" AI people. Stay far from them.

LOL

:D:D:D

YES!

Double that if your "rush story" smacks of pink sequin tights and having 1285 sororities at an uber-competitive campus, and can't keep your story straight.

Rush stories are my least favourite threads.

I disagree.

Sometimes they're fun to read. I don't read all of them.

Don't read 'em if you don't like 'em.:cool:

HAHA! I have been going back and forth on this. I agree with TC 110% - they are stupid and pointless. Especially because there is a 99.99% chance that all these going on now are fake and written by the same person (eaglesbaby). There are just waaaay too many similarities in these stories. Plus as I mentioned before, anyone who is "a regular poster who made a sockpuppet to create suspense" KNOWS better than to do a story right now.

I have held my tongue (fingers) thus far, because I'm waiting for the stories to finish out and then for an established GC'er to verify the membership of the author. And refusing to PM your information to a GC'er is equivalent to admitting you made the shit up.

Thank you.

I rarely read the threads, but even seeing the thread titles pop up annoys me. :p

I read some and reply to some - merely for entertainment purposes. But if you are going to try and "lock up" the people who read and respond to them, you should also do the same for all the people who post "whats your favorite color" and "I'm getting married so yay for me" threads.

Agree. Agree. Agree.

The only exception is for posters that really are great writers and/or there is a point for posting other than the ego of the writer. Two threads come to mind:

curlygirly
20something

Speaking of 20something... please allow me the podium for a moment so that I can get this off my chest:

One thing that annoys me soooo much is the overuse of "brutally honest" in these inane stories. If people would actually go back and read her excellent story then they would realize that most of the "brutal honesty" had to do with her own mistakes, growing as an 18 year old young woman, and other introspection that had to do with *her* and NOT the houses. Yes, she did include some possible dirty rushing, etc, but that thread was not created so that she could bash houses. Ugh at the immature posters who think that using the term "brutally honest" means that it is license to say negative things about the actives and the houses.

/steps off of podium

If posting your story has a point, then do it. If it is entertaining enough to make us laugh, then do it. If you just need attention and to feel important, then move along. We don't care. Each of us already has our own recruitment story so it is not like you are unique.

uh oh :p

I'm swerving into non-NPHC lane when I say that the "what OTHER sorority would you join if/based on...." threads are always pretty silly to me. *ducking for cover*

I'm not generally a retro rush thread myself, but I must admit I'm really into Barbie's thread. She's so awesome. :D

Here's my retro thread: I rushed and joined AOII. Yay me.

I have mixed feelings about them. I used to be absolutely addicted to these before I joined and when I first started posting. But slowly, I've become less and less interested. They just all seem the same now (and maybe they are, because of eaglesbaby, ha!) It's definitely lost it's appeal for me.

I still like ones that are live. To me those are the best ones. I just think it's great to read about someone who is SO excited about her new sisters that she wants to tell her story to everyone who will listen. I also enjoy hearing about what recruitment is like at different schools, and I like REAL retro threads (like ones from the mid 90's or earlier) cause I also think it's fun to hear about what rush used to be like. But those kinds of things seem to be rare these days.

And the sugar coating it killing it too. I know I'm being a hypocrite right now because my story was mostly rainbows and butterflies, but I did it because I lurked GC for a while before I posted, and I thought that I would get flamed if I said "everyone says that ABC is the fat sorority, DEF are the skanks, and GHI are the rich snobs". Since I was a newbie, I didn't want to step on anyone's toes. Maybe that's why some people do it too, but that's just a guess.

So yeah, I'm losing interest too, but I'm sure you'll find me posting here as they at least provide a quick and easy entertainment break from work. :o

If it's someone who is a contributing member of GC on an ongoing basis, that's one thing.

But what is ridiculous is the people who claim to have been lurking, or people who claimed be posting under a different username for some unknown and/or stupid people.

Most recruitment stories are kind of boring to me unless it's a campus that I know well, and then I enjoy them.

But other than those, I like the trainwrecks the best. Bring on the pink sequined hose if you're going to bring it.

But as always, I can't figure out why the presence of stuff I'm not interested in is worth responding to. Most of Chit Chat is mind numbing, but no one complains.

Come on people, the "what's for dinner" thread? Really?

If you really want retro threads, do this:

1. Click on "Recruitment Stories"
2. Click on the last page
3. Work your way up.

These are all real (as far as we know) and many are honest without being rude.

As far as all the creative writing class peeps that have been coming here and writing rush stories....GO AWAY. WE ARE ON TO YOU.

I may be slightly biased, but this is the best retro story ever! Yay you!

AGREED!

I generally stay way from the recruitment forums, and I don't have any problem with the retro recruitment threads (wouldn't matter to me if they kept going), but...

Isn't there a big difference between the "I'm getting married" threads and the retro recruitment threads? I mean, not putting down the importance in one's life of joining a fraternity or sorority, but getting married is a huge moment in one's life. I think that's more understandable then going into detail about their recruitment x number of years ago.

This is a good suggestion.

why does anyone get so upset about these posts?
i thought it was an open site and welcome to one and all for the most part. why try to run people off?

Oh, Tippie, look... you've attracted Tom.

We have threads about peoples more notable bowel movements... so does this really merit our attention?

Yes, its important to ones life - but is it important to share with everyone on GC? It may not be the best example. Maybe a better example would be "In this Post we Post Too Much Information" (which is a current thread under Chit Chat).

What I'm trying to get at is that at least recruitment stories (and yes they are "stories" because we have so many fakers out there) possibly pertain to Greek Life in some way. There are more than plenty of threads that don't and people don't flip out about them. Most people just choose not to read them.

Seriously Tom, Why do you come back? NOBODY CARES OR WANTS TO TALK TO YOU.:):confused::eek::cool::rolleyes::mad::p;):D:o

Seriously don't you all have more important things to chat about like this years collection of handbags?

you forgot to mention chuck norris's recruitment thread

Awesome retro story!


Personally, I think that some retro stories can be helpful to PNMs, because in some cases, they give an idea of how mutual selection works (just because you love XYZ doesn't mean the feeling is mutual), and some stories show that recruitment is not always successful -- I remember one story (I think it was set at USC) where the PNM did not receive any bids but came back to GC to say that she had gotten involved in other ways. I liked this thread so much, because it showed that the quality of one's college experience does not hinge on joining a GLO.

Some retro threads are fun reading, because they are signs of the times, back when recruitment was rush.

NOT helpful or fun are the high drama "brutally honest" retro threads that string on and on for weeks and months (although I do love Barbie's thread right now -- life's been stressful, and that thread is loaded with comic relief).

Perhaps people wouldn't mind the retro threads so much if they were A) short, wrapping it up in 1-3 posts over a couple of days; B) concise, since we don't need to know the nitty gritty of every single conversation someone had at each house; and C) TRUE. Seriously, NaNoWriMo is in November, and the creative writing club can get more info about that here.

Inferred here: ;)

Also, I was trying to highlight some REAL recruitment stories that weren't the usual blah, blah, blah, and that included personal growth/realization/maturity by the poster. Both threads are great examples of how to write either a live or a retro story.

Agreed 1000%

Agreed!!

Is there a way for users to change their default settings to revert back to the way GC used to look? That way, people who don't want to see 37 new retro recruitment threads could just avoid clicking on the Recruitment Stories sub-forum when they log on.

LOL!

I have to admit the chuck norris thread was great! :)

To me, it makes more sense to share a recruitment story on GREEKchat than to share details of nonGreek-related things like getting married. Greekchat and making announcements to usernames is the last thing on my mind when it comes to marriage and so forth. :)

Well that's why there is the Chit Chat portion of the board. Sometimes it's fun to get to know other things about your fellow GCers instead of just their GLO.

I really don't see what the problem is. If you don't like them, don't read them. The fake ones get called out. I read the good ones, I disregard the dumb ones.

I will admit there are certain aspects of some recruitment stories I don't like:

- "Does anyone want to hear my recruitment story?"
-"I thought no one was reading"
-"I am a longtime lurker or a longtime GCer using a different name" (20something, you get a pass on that one ;))
-Thinking that "brutally honest" means having a license to talk shit about chapters (not 20something's use of "brutally honest")
-People who constantly beg for updates
-Fake stories
-Dragging your story out unnecessarily
-Including too few details to make a story worth reading


It's unfair to lump the stories of 20something, LeslieAnne, irishpipes, susan314, curlygirly, and honeychile (to name a few) in with the "stupid rush stories". However, I don't think that this thread will stop any other REAL posters who are GOOD writers with an INTERESTING story from sharing. At least I hope not.

Not to me. :) We're sharing our opinions of others' threads and posts.

I would like to hear more stories from the gentlemen. I know next to nothing about fraternity recruitment, and what little I do know is from reading the guys' recruitment stories.

THIS. For some reason, recruitment stories have become these drawn out, mind-numbing novels. Most of the time, I wait until a story is completely done before I start reading it. Even then, I don't read the entire thing. When a story starts out with 19 chapters, I find it completely unnecessary to read about the first round of recruitment. Usually, people don't remember a lot, and you really haven't been able to meet a lot of members, and half the time people actually waste their time by typing "I don't remember a whole lot about this party"... which then already indicates to me that there's a good chance that chapter won't show up in the next installment.