Surveying currently active GCers...

[John]

Thank you to everyone for sharing your views & opinions. All of your comments are very useful, informative and most greatly appreciated.

Please keep the comments coming if anyone has more to share or if anyone hasn't commented yet.

I've taken lots of notes as I read through this thread up to this point. Pretty much every post since all of them were so helpful.

I'll be posting more on the various comments soon, but for now let's see if we get some more views / opinions being shared in this thread.

[Cookiez17]

I also will bring up another point: reddit’s fraternity and sorority boards have kinda taken the place of this. Many questions that would have been posted here like “I’m rushing at Anytown U what is it like?” Or “I’m going through COB I need advice” usually end up there. The sorority board is actually pretty active there and assume it’s the same for the fraternity board.

[AGDee]

I think it was a combination of the bullying. I mean, one person actually had their membership suspended because a GCer told a higher up person in their organization a bunch of lies. The prunetacos thing was scary. The people who were doxxing others was scary (doxxing wasn't a word back then, was it? LOL).

But we hit a point at one time where the bot activity was completely nuts and you couldn't hardly read it. That was before the Introductions posting process was implemented. That slowed the bots, but I feel like a lot of people quit trying at that point and forgot about it.

Reddit is a bigger competitor than TikTok in my opinion as there are subs for sororities and greek life and, I imagine, fraternities. The people who made friends in real life moved on to Facebook for staying in touch, for the most part. Other forms of social media have taken over. Although I liken this forum more to reddit than to other platforms. I know a lot of us are on Reddit too. We could probably push more traffic this way by referencing it often.