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Originally posted by ariesrising
I know I may get ripped for this, but my biggest pet peeve on all of GC is the infamous "Good luck!" post.
If I have to read through another "good luck", "have a great recruitment", "follow your heart" or "keep an open mind" I think I will throw up.
I'm sort of hoping that when recruitment begins I'll read a recruitment story thread and hear....I don't know....their recruitment story maybe? But somehow I doubt it.
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I wish there was a way to narow down a thread to just the posts by the PNM. That way you get their story and not the extra stuff.
I know I've posted good luck statements to PNMs before. I can think of many reasons why people like to do it, the biggest being to subscribe to the thread. It is possible to just subscribe to the threads without posting something on it though. Maybe if we all did that then the threads could be kept for the Recruitment stories themselves. Then again, if nobody responded to a post, the PNM may never post again, because she does not feel validated or wanted or whatever.
I guess we're stuck between a rock and hard place. Maybe someone could come up with a standard post that says something like...
"All the GCers from many different GLOs who read your thread are silently wishing you luck with your recuritment process and are hoping that you find a chapter of a sorority (or fraternity, though that's rare on here) that you can call home. We will all be reading whatever updates you give us and cheering you on. Just becuase we do not respond, does not mean we are not interested in your story. Just check out the number of times your thread has been viewed and you will realize you have many, many people hoping you have a successful and exciting recruitment period."
What do you all think?