Comments on the new AI sub-forum?

[navane]

Ok! So this is interesting. John has elected to move the AI sub-forum to a place under the Recruitment forum.


My very first thought was "Ack".


There were lots of ladies on here protesting that GC has become a way to drum-up attention for AI, attention that is unwanted by many international organizations. And yet, now we're going to put this topic under the heading of "recruitment"? Ack. I thought that was the whole point, that we didn't want GC to become a recruitment tool for AI. That some groups *do not* want PNAMs to approach them.


Further to that, every year we have PNMs go through recruitment at their college and fail to get a bid. Some people, with good intentions, tell these women that, "you can always AI". AIs and AI supporters will protest this type of response as, no, one can't always AI. Picking up women who failed to get a bid was never the intention of AI; but hey, now we're going to pair the AI sub-forum with the Recruitment section so all of the failed PNMs can just move on down the line?


Any thoughts on this?


.....Kelly

[33girl]

As I pointed out in another thread somewhere, it's kind of wrong to have anything about AI in the alumnae forum since the women pursuing AI aren't alumnae YET (and if their pursuits don't work out, may never be). They are in the process of joining.

Now if after they join, they want to post in the alumni forum about their experiences as alumni, that's different.

[navane]

Originally Posted by 33girl

As I pointed out in another thread somewhere, it's kind of wrong to have anything about AI in the alumnae forum since the women pursuing AI aren't alumnae YET (and if their pursuits don't work out, may never be). They are in the process of joining.

Now if after they join, they want to post in the alumni forum about their experiences as alumni, that's different.

That's a fair point. I peronally don't really have an issue with that so much. In my post, I was speaking more to the argument that GreekChat creates an unwanted market for AIs. There have been many, many posts insisting that collegiate recruitment and alumnae initiation are not the same thing and now we've got them both under the same heading.

.....Kelly

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by navane

That's a fair point. I peronally don't really have an issue with that so much. In my post, I was speaking more to the argument that GreekChat creates an unwanted market for AIs. There have been many, many posts insisting that collegiate recruitment and alumnae initiation are not the same thing and now we've got them both under the same heading.

.....Kelly

I guess we'll just have to count on our sisters to "weed out" those persuing AI for the wrong reasons.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by navane

That's a fair point. I peronally don't really have an issue with that so much. In my post, I was speaking more to the argument that GreekChat creates an unwanted market for AIs. There have been many, many posts insisting that collegiate recruitment and alumnae initiation are not the same thing and now we've got them both under the same heading.

.....Kelly

Fraternity rush and sorority rush aren't the same thing either.

That is why we have subforums.

[adpiucf]

At least it will be a moderated subforum.

Originally Posted by adpiucf

At least it will be a moderated subforum.

Amen to that!

[AGDLynn]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Fraternity rush and sorority rush aren't the same thing either.
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Tell that to Alpha Gam, Phi Mu, etc.

[Tom Earp]

Let us hope so.

It will be interesting to follow this forum.

I just hope it works for the best interest of GC.

[kddani]

I agree in some ways, but it's a heck of a lot better than where it was. Carnation and Penguintrax do a very good job of moderating this forum. To me it's still not the best solution, but at least now it can be moderated.

[AlphaFrog]

As long as it doesn't go from under(or non)-Moded to overModed, I'm good with the change.