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Originally posted by Lady Pi Phi
True, we shouldn't always assume that posters are trolls.
But when someone comes here and poses a question like this, for example, "I hate Greeks. They're stupid. All they do is drink and sleep around. They're all racist, yadda, yadda, yadda...What's so great about greek life?" It's hard not to think of this person as a troll. That person may have wanted to pose a serious question, but they could have phrased their question a better way. People have come on here saying things like that, and on a pro-greek message board, people will get defensive.
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Keep in mind that hundreds, of people who are not greek view this site, but do not post. Many of them may have these same preconceived notions, but choose not to air them out in such a dramatic fashion. You are especially in this forum and especially in those types of threads an ambassador for the Greek system.
We need to think beyond the impact of the post on the person we are speaking directly to since this is a public forum.
The questions of "What's for dinner?" Are just inappropriate and may have actually reinforced people other than the trollish thread originator's preconceived notions about what we are like.
This forum, and really all of them here show what we're really like. So let's not act petty and combatitive.