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Originally Posted by Little32
^^We are not trying to enforce a uniformity. From reading this thread, it sounds as though NPHC fraternities have a different edict concerning discussions of membership via the internet. If that is the case, run with it. But as Soror AKA_Monet and ladygreek have pointed out, that is not the case with NPHC sororities. We have particular protocols to follow too, and they will be followed in our specific forums and by our members, whether that makes us seem insular, secretive, or whatever.
Also, I think that PhDiva's point stands. If aspirants come here, read the POW (or comparable TOS for each forum), it immediately becomes clear what kinds of questions will or will not be entertained in those forums. Regardless of whether this is the "real world" or not, it is just plain frustrating when we say again and again that we will not answer membership questions and aspirants again and again post them. Those same aspirants learn valuable lessons about how to display their interest in the real world by the responses they receive here. At the same time, as PhDiva pointed out, that does not preclude aspirants from seeking advice privately, and it is to each members discretion as to how they handle those private messages.
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Non. It's more about the "how" and not so much the "what," thus the note of the defensiveness issue in the original post. In this forum there is the dialectic of post, response, surresponse...til people get satisfactory understanding, direction, drop the matter or action has to be taken by a moderator.This is the "self-correcting" factor in this forum, besides the basic rules. And intake questions were only a part of the issue raised in the initial post of this thread.In my reading, it was the global sense of the insularity and secrecy that was addressed, and which does resonate with me. There is plenty of bombast and immaturity expressed in the tone of some of the NPHC posts on GC.The way "stuff" is handled in some quarters today is that one of the dialogue partners would discover grass stains on their clothes after they've been body slammed on the ground. Then the happy dialogue continues.That's the real world in Greekdom, unfortunately!
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