Your thoughts on AI: discussion goes here.

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Originally Posted by GDIfly

This has been thoroughly addressed but is still so ridiculous that I want to respond as well.

1)Org. specific forums are not JUST for members of that org. You may choose not to read other groups' forums, but acting like it's your duty or obligation to be ignorant of how they're run is just preposterous.

Until this very thread I had no clue how the D9 forum mods ran their forums. I don't care. I don't read them. I have no need to read them. I am not a D9 member. Is there some secret post that I NEED to go read? Apparently I missed the memo.

Originally Posted by GDIfly

2) News flash for you: This is an internet message board. John may not want a specific few to only post what they deem is acceptable, but I do believe he wants a moderated forum rather than a trainwreck. In the case of AI, more stringent moderation is needed, and that means locking down threads where women try to 'pursue' AI.

Why? There are many women on GC who have 'pursued' AI and have been successful with it. There are also some who have failed miserably. Should AIs only be allowed to post success stories? It seems to me since everyone is so against shopping and people knowing about AI it would be in our best interest to only allow failure stories. At least it'd be something interesting to read.

Originally Posted by GDIfly

Moderating a forum that has been known to cause controversy and 40-page-long threads debating the validity and necessity of its existence is hardly stripping people of their God-given right to free speech. It's the internet. It's not an appropriate venue for people to pursue AI [whether or not such a venue even exists is a different matter]. Therefore, moderating it by locking down such threads is merely removing inappropriate content, like spam, pornographic, or nonsense threads.

I see no reason why this forum should cause controversy. As I've been told before, if you don't like it, don't read it. If you get a PM from a PNAI delete it. Not hard, but then again, if you live for GC you might have to, HEAVEN FORBID, clean out your PM box more often.

Originally Posted by PenguinTrax

John has no problems with it. It is no different than a registered spammer posting and having it deleted or a registered user posting a ritual secret. As far as someone else moderating this forum, no-one else wanted it.

Furthermore, I do not appreciate being called a Omnipotent forum dictator.

I don't know about you, but I think 'Omnipotent forum dictator' is a pretty sweet title. Take it as a compliment, I know I would.

Originally Posted by PenguinTrax

You don't know me from Adam - how dare you impunge my good name (or Carnations). I have been a valuable member of the GC community for 7 years now and my ability to moderate the forums to which I am assigned has very rarely garnered anything but praise. I'd like to see you do this unpaid, and often, thankless job.

Didn't you volunteer for this job? Aren't volunteer jobs "unpaid, and often, thankless"?
And you're right, I don't want your job.

Originally Posted by PenguinTrax

AI is a membership function that is different for every group. GC has no right to hand out information on the process - GC is not affiliated with the NPC, IFC, NPHC, NALFO or any other oversight organization. GC is not a democracy - it is a free service offered up to the Fraternity & Sorority Community. It can be shut down at any time and its rules are subject to constant review and modification. If you don't like how a forum, or GC, is run, feel free to go elsewhere.

GC IS NOT handing out information on the process. Except maybe for the sticky at the top of the forum, and that was, I assume, put there by a mod.
Just because Jenny Joe of XYZ is telling Jessie Jean PNAI that XYZ does AI doesn't mean that GC is responsible for that content. You're not, I'm not, and frankly XYZ is not. If you don't like talking aboutAI then don't, but also don't forget that you DO have AI sisters. Don't sweep their existence under the rug because GASP you don't want to be bothered by sorority shoppers.