[SmartBlondeGPhB]

Originally posted by ariesrising
Imagine you are an international officer, you're reading the AI forum here on GC and you're reading someone's story.

You have recently been contacted by someone (or your organization with someone's information) who is interested in AI and you've emailed them and they seem nice. You start thinking - hmm, maybe it's the same person.

You discover it is - then you read in their thread that they have contacted 5 groups at once.

So now you know that this woman is likely going to be meeting with 4 other sororities in your area. If she doesn't stand out in a big way after your first meeting or email contact - whatever - what in the world would consider you to continue meeting with her?

She obviously has other plans. Back up plans...or maybe your group IS her backup.

This woman might be a good person...she might be someone, that if she had contacted only your organization, you might want to put the time and energy into meeting. She isn't Mother Teresa, but she's nice and might be a good fit.

But when all these other groups come into the equation, there's a BIG chance she might go elsewhere, because obviously she isn't too clear on what kind of group she wants, she doesn't totally love YOUR group. Since she's just "good and nice", it may not be worth it to go through all the trouble - if she was super and amazing and loved your group, it might be. But with all these other groups in the mix, it might not be worth fighting for her.

So I think GC could have a negative impact on someone's AI process.

Thank you.

And to those who are now going to say that this doesn't happen, IT DOES. My effort to assist has dropped dramatically when I have found out that a woman is looking at other groups.