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Two duds blackball studs
In a chapter I used to advise, two brothers from the same home town repeatedly blackballed pledges, usually saying " I never got to know him" or "he didn't show me anything."
The two brothers really weren't very sharp themselves. I think they used their votes to try to improve their status, and to get more attention from the pledges.
The chapter probably lost 10 pledges over a two-year period, via blackballs cast by these two guys.
It was becoming a problem, since some well-liked pledges were kicked out. Eventually some of the other brothers sat down with the two, and told them that if they caused the chapter to lose any more good pledges, the two could be voted "inactive" (non-voting) status.
this ended the problem, but we missed out on some good men.
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