Your thoughts on AI: discussion goes here.

[UGAalum94]

SydneyK,

Believe it or not, my interest in preserving the AI forum is simply because I don't think we should try to limit the speech or writing of other people unless it falls into certain clearly defined catagories.

For GreekChat those catagories seem to be the TOS, GLO ritual, and GLO policies that may not technically be ritual but are private none the less. I suppose the owner of GreekChat could add others at any time he felt it appropriate.

It appears to me that when a smallish group of posters lost the ability to snark at will in the AI forum, they began to ask for the forum to be shut down.

They retroactively seem to want to apply a standard to the AI forum that isn't in play in any other area of GreekChat. (ie, Only stuff that's on official webpage, only stuff that's not on official webpages, etc)

If the forum owner and the moderators get rid of the AI forum, it won't really represent a personal loss to me or anything. My group has some information about AI that can presently be found online places other than GreekChat, and my group's AI is only open to women invited by members of the group. I don't have any strong feelings about AI discussion on GreekChat partially because I don't think it really matters in terms of how GLOs function in real life.

I do think it's nice to have a forum for AI women to describe how the were able to become members. I don't mean of the "I shopped around and this one took me" variety. I mean the stories of the women that the GLOs sought out or the stories of the women who were pledges but had to drop and then were finally initiated through AI. These stories are inspirational and remind some of us who aren't super-involved as alums that our service to the organization is still important, important enough that some people join simply to serve as alumnae.