Where to go for recruitment advice

[Hartofsec]

Originally Posted by iamamom

May I pipe in? I'm surprised you don't get it. Y'all can be REALLY nasty to newbies who really know nothing about recruitment. And most girls don't want to become known before going into it. I've seen posters ridiculed and have their posts torn to bits. I barely come here at all now once I read the stickied threads.

I agree – these PNMs are young (many high school seniors are 17), most have no experience with recruitment, and none have been on the active side of recruitment. Certainly they may ask questions that reflect a lack of experience or even misinformation they received from friends.

If PNMs use the forum search to find past responses, they may be discouraged from asking a question. Many who (possibly inadvertently) asked a “wrong” question here were QFP’d, spell-checked, and generally pecked to death by biddies delighted that a “wrong” question was (once again) asked.

Recruitment comes around every year and so will the same questions. This also happens in real life, especially during the rec-writing season.

No one is under any obligation to answer the same questions annually on a message board, so perhaps if responding or linking to a relevant thread is too much trouble, just don’t. Someone else probably will.