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If there are people being bitchy about giving interviews or during them, the pledge mom should be immediately notified and those people disciplined. Setting down ground rules (i.e. you have to schedule interviews, you can't make the pledge go to a weird location to get your interview, can't go more than 15 minutes) help keep the situation from getting uncomfortable.
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I'm with 33girl on this one (we ASAs have to hang together). We had sisters use signatures to punish pledges that they didn't like, and, because we didn't allow hazing but the rules were not particularly stringent, sisters got away with it. It was "girly" and borderline - they didn't require the pledges to do pushups or drink alcohol - but they were evasive and rude. Our pledge trainer should have had the power to step in and say "in that case, you don't need their signature" She did that with a few off-campus sisters who were simply unavailable most of the time, but if someone were giving you a hard time verbally, too bad for you.
Having pleges get signatures in pairs, or having two or three sisters meet with two or three pledges at once tends to make people who are prone to play games behave themselves.
But I agree that - as long as the pledge mom can step in if anyone gets demanding - it's an idea that is really important.
It forces people who may not have hit it off at rush to talk, which is key to the health of the sisterhood. If things don't get smoothed over early on, they are just going to emerge as power plays during chapter business meetings, etc. And being forced to approach the girls who were quieter or more aloof frequently found you friends and interests in common that you might never have expected.