I'm back from my appointment, so I'm going to expand a bit on this idea:
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Originally posted by Eupolis
What I like to think is that though people will sometimes make mistakes, we can learn and teach each other how not to make those mistakes. We can catch them quickly and deal with them in a way that leads to the growth of the individual rather than closing everyone off and preventing social growth.
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Here's what I'm thinking. People are going to make some posts that are in bad judgment. Either they will just do something we'd all recognize as the result of a bad judgment call, or they'll do something that we'd consider to be a bad idea if we were in the same organization. Either way, the proper socially positive response is for a sister or brother (or other GC'er) to say, "Hey, you probably shouldn't have posted that; consider deleting it." Reasonable people may differ as to just when it's time to step in and say something like that. It's still an effective and socially positive method of policing ourselves. It's a completely natural way, too -- the same way we go about it when we're in person.
There may be a gut reaction among some GLOs that they'd really prefer to keep all of the debate about these sorts of things within the organization. One argument against that reaction is that the internet simply isn't going to let them do that. It's true. Another argument, though, is that there have always been public gaffes where people say embarrassing things; the solution has never been to gag them all. The solution is to say, "hey, you probably shouldn't have done that," and (if the situation demands it) to say publicly, "sorry, we want you to know that we don't necessarily agree with that," and to move on from there. The person who made the mistake has the opportunity along with others to learn from it. It's practically never the end of the world.
Kappa Kappa Gamma will hopefully realize that this natural way of handling social gaffes will work just fine here. They will probably want a policy that encourages it and that makes clear certain lines that should not be crossed. In the end, though, they have (1) to trust that the majority of their sisters' judgment calls will be just fine, and (2) to accept that when someone makes a mistake, it can usually be handled easily.