Your thoughts on AI: discussion goes here.

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Leaving aside definitions and opinions, it really is a pretty simple consideration in my opinion.

Should this site provide a venue for people to discuss and pursue membership in GLOs in a way that is inconsistent with the intent of the GLOs themselves, or should it not?

Is this forum intended to serve the Greek Community, or is it intended to serve those who wish to openly discuss ways to become a part of the Greek Community in a manner that is not appropriate for an internet discussion?

I have not been on this site all that long, but it seems to me much bad blood spills over from the AI forum into other forums.

Those looking for a scientific and precise definition of AI and GLO policies on AI will never find it here- and for the exact same reasons I would never come on this board and post about my chapter's last rush and who we took or did not take, and why.

Anyone who posts here purporting to offer tips and secrets to make AI successful is offering false information. That person is not necessarily being intentionally misleading- they may just be sharing what worked for them- but the fact remains that it is information that lacks the value that it is implied to provide.

Whatever you think about the definition of sorority shopping or whether there should be an AI forum, can anyone really disagree with what I have just stated in the above two paragraphs?

GC has to then decide whether to keep the forum given the potential quality of information that could be conveyed about AI, the feelings of GLOs IHQs on the public discussion of such, and the difficulty of moderating a forum that can so easily and quickly get off the trail of what IS appropriate public discussion of AI.

I think that decision will have a great impact not only on the quality of GC, but on the willingness of active GLO members, alumni, chapter advisors and others to post here at all in any forum.

Let me give you another example. Let's say that gradually the Risk Management forum were to evolve into a place where fraternity members would come to post and ask about ways to get around IHQ risk management policies to hold wild parties.

What would be the consequences of that?

In many ways that is different from sorority shopping on AI- but there is one key thing both have in common. Both provide a venue on an internet site for people to have discussions about matters that IHQs would consider highly inappropriate for good reason.

This is a great site for the promotion and discussion of GLOs. It is not appropriate as a place to openly attempt to make public, circumvent or argue for a change in GLO policies that are their own to privately manage.