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If you want to make it more accurate ...
When a person submits info, call the fraternity or sorority national headquarters and ask them if they have a chapter at college X. Ask them if they had/have a chapter at X during the time the applicant supposedly attended it. And ask them if that person is a member. I don't know if they'll give out that last bit of information, but they certainly will give out the first two. KD Dani is right - first and foremost we want to make sure the people mentioned are actually the Greeks they claim to be.
If that information checks out, there is still the possibility that they person is not gay, but I don't see how you can check that short of calling information, getting their phone number, and asking, "Did you sumit this information?" Whether or not someone is gay, their name should not be on there unless THEY want it on there, and the current system allows for someone else to post information on your site. Using their directory-listed number is the best way around this.
I do believe you have an obligation to fact check - and I think you do too, otherwise you wouldn't have them fill out as complete a form as you do.
But, if anything, this site is misleading, because I doubt you'll ever get the majority of gay Greeks names on there, thus *under*representing the number of gay Greeks. And anyone who has the courage to declare their orientation to the entire internet has probably already found the courage to come out to their chapter - if they weren't out to begin with.
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