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.

[PhoenixAttain]

I come here for the chapter establishments and closures and recruitment results as well the AI journeys. There is a subreddit for AI but I haven’t seen the other information that GC covers showing up as much on Reddit.

[bbygrl01]

Originally Posted by Cookiez17

Sadly to them the amazing orgs that are part of the D9/MCGO/NAFLO are a "second thought" despite them doing amazing things on campus. I have seen a few videos about the D9 (and they're usually step shows and new member presentations) but it's nothing compared to the sorority rush content.

This is actually why I came to GC... I am a sister of a local multicultural (though we are actively working on becoming a national), and we simply cannot relate to any of the 'Bama Rush' content so I came here searching for more relevant information

Reddit is okay, but that also tends to get overpowered with bid day content. At least here its easier to find stuff I am actually interested in

[*winter*]

GC is nice because all sorts of GLOs are part of the conversation.

I took a stroll over to Reddit…turns out, all the people who would come here and post “ZOMG I have been a member for five seconds and I don’t have fifty best friends yet!!! Should I quit now?” have migrated there.

There’s a pretty cool discussion on why “this generation” is dropping out, etc…it’s interesting because we have had the same discussions here ten years ago- with similar observations about “this generation.”

I guess some things never change?

[Titchou]

Originally Posted by *winter*

GC is nice because all sorts of GLOs are part of the conversation.

I took a stroll over to Reddit…turns out, all the people who would come here and post “ZOMG I have been a member for five seconds and I don’t have fifty best friends yet!!! Should I quit now?” have migrated there.

There’s a pretty cool discussion on why “this generation” is dropping out, etc…it’s interesting because we have had the same discussions here ten years ago- with similar observations about “this generation.”

I guess some things never change?

C'est vrai!

[John]

Thanks again to everyone for sharing your thoughts in this survey discussion thread.

I've had to redirect my focus away from GC for a short bit, but will be right back at this not too long from now.

As this was a survey for currently active GCers, my plans are to next reach out to GCers who were very active in the past but have not been active on GC for quite some time. Goal will be to learn directly from them why they stopped being active on GC and what changes they might want to see here at GC in order to regain their interest in becoming active on GC again.

Reaching out to these previously active GCers will require some database programming to basically build a list of these GC accounts, filter out any who opted in their GC profile to not receive admin emails from GC, etc. Then I'll reach out and see where it all leads. This will very likely be the next mini-project I do soon as I can get back to focusing more again on GC.

[AGDee]

There might be some on the Greekchat facebook page. I can post something there if you have a google form or something they can fill out.

[John]

Originally Posted by AGDee

There might be some on the Greekchat facebook page. I can post something there if you have a google form or something they can fill out.

That survey I plan on doing via discussion thread here on GC like this one as well as via email for anyone that just wants to reply to the email that I send out. Once I get that survey going & the thread is posted, would be great if you could post a link to that on FB as well. Thanks.

[AGDee]

Will do!

[UVASquirrel]

Originally Posted by shadokat

My personal opinion:

I stay because I like the recruitment thread, and when irishpipes left, I figured I'd keep it going. I know I'm not as good at it as she is, but everyone wants to know that stuff.

I think you're doing a great job! I stay mainly for the recruitment thread and the extension/closure one. Thank you for keeping the recruitment one going!