The "new" GC
 

Apparently is a place where people who have no validation for their outside lives can come and act like their mental growth was stunted at age 9. Folks, I am very weary now of how seriously people take this site and how far they are willing to go in order to feel better about themselves. Also, I would like to apologize to anyone who has taken such offense to things I have posted and have such a deep investment in my opinion of them. For my part, I admit I have made childish remarks and unnecessary personal jabs. In the future, I will no longer make personal remarks about people, and really I doubt I will visit chit chat often at all, as lately it seems to be a breeding fround for some people who have a frightening vendetta against others. No, this is not one of those threads where I say "Hey! Look at me!! I am never coming back!!" It is just something for y'all to read and hopefully contemplate just how seriously you take GC and the people on it.

As long as you don't stop coming 'round the Ave it's cool with me.:cool:

or the Blvd. :cool:

Ohhh . . . :(

You can still make personal jabs at me if you want. I don't mind.

Hey! Do not give me attention! This was not meant to be an attention whoring thread! :mad:

I think the last line was the most important thing of all. Some things that have occured on GC in the past few months have REALLLLLLLLY concerned me...such as how people use this site as a means of generating self esteem or some sort of validation, and what lengths they will go to to acheive that.

But just for the record, I am now going to march over to the intersection of AKA and DST and take many personal jabs at sugar and spice, lol.

P.S. I am still gonna be posting over here occasionally, but I don't want to fuel the environment by adding my own personal barbs at someone else's expense.

librasoul.....

i am pretty much in agreement with your post, although there's no way for me to tell if we are speaking of the same things or not. i've just seen people come out of nowhere with nasty messages to people....luckily it's never been directed toward me.

it definitely seems to be a self-esteem, self-importance complex or SOMETHING.

i don't like the new GC...or maybe i mean the attitudes that have been ushered in, but i am glad that the majority of the posts i am concerned with don't generally occur in the forums i frequent the most.

it's just sad how many people i've had to block so i can continue to enjoy my experience.

Ditto.

But you're not a fun target...

You've just summed up why I stopped going to Chit Chat (except for the occasional "It's shopping time" thread. :)

I don’t post much but the atmosphere of GreekChat has really made my posting drop off this semester…

I've had to block a bunch, too...but even those people seem to have gotten better as far as deliberately offensive posts go. Maybe I missed a lot of the really terrible things that seemed to happen over Thanksgiving, but maybe since I only look at a handful of forums and post on even fewer, I've missed out on the more insidious stuff.

Example numero uno...:rolleyes:

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I find the overt troublemakers refreshing. At least they are generically annoying and entertaining at times.

Its the people that practice sly malicious gossip, social shit talking and basically act like high school that are truly a plague on the site.

In chapter we used to call them "nasty little faggots" whether they were male or female to captialize on the malicious gossippy person stereotype that has been popularized in films.

Sorry to add to your thread Librasoul I know you weren't trying o make a production here.