Seriously, peeps. No one REALLY cares about your stupid rush story.

[MaggieXi]

I read some and reply to some - merely for entertainment purposes. But if you are going to try and "lock up" the people who read and respond to them, you should also do the same for all the people who post "whats your favorite color" and "I'm getting married so yay for me" threads.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by MaggieXi

"I'm getting married so yay for me" threads.

uh oh

I'm swerving into non-NPHC lane when I say that the "what OTHER sorority would you join if/based on...." threads are always pretty silly to me. *ducking for cover*

[KSigkid]

Originally Posted by MaggieXi

I read some and reply to some - merely for entertainment purposes. But if you are going to try and "lock up" the people who read and respond to them, you should also do the same for all the people who post "whats your favorite color" and "I'm getting married so yay for me" threads.

I generally stay way from the recruitment forums, and I don't have any problem with the retro recruitment threads (wouldn't matter to me if they kept going), but...

Isn't there a big difference between the "I'm getting married" threads and the retro recruitment threads? I mean, not putting down the importance in one's life of joining a fraternity or sorority, but getting married is a huge moment in one's life. I think that's more understandable then going into detail about their recruitment x number of years ago.

[MaggieXi]

Originally Posted by KSigkid

I generally stay way from the recruitment forums, and I don't have any problem with the retro recruitment threads (wouldn't matter to me if they kept going), but...

Isn't there a big difference between the "I'm getting married" threads and the retro recruitment threads? I mean, not putting down the importance in one's life of joining a fraternity or sorority, but getting married is a huge moment in one's life. I think that's more understandable then going into detail about their recruitment x number of years ago.

Yes, its important to ones life - but is it important to share with everyone on GC? It may not be the best example. Maybe a better example would be "In this Post we Post Too Much Information" (which is a current thread under Chit Chat).

What I'm trying to get at is that at least recruitment stories (and yes they are "stories" because we have so many fakers out there) possibly pertain to Greek Life in some way. There are more than plenty of threads that don't and people don't flip out about them. Most people just choose not to read them.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by KSigkid

Isn't there a big difference between the "I'm getting married" threads and the retro recruitment threads? I mean, not putting down the importance in one's life of joining a fraternity or sorority, but getting married is a huge moment in one's life. I think that's more understandable then going into detail about their recruitment x number of years ago.

To me, it makes more sense to share a recruitment story on GREEKchat than to share details of nonGreek-related things like getting married. Greekchat and making announcements to usernames is the last thing on my mind when it comes to marriage and so forth.

[violetpretty]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

To me, it makes more sense to share a recruitment story on GREEKchat than to share details of nonGreek-related things like getting married. Greekchat and making announcements to usernames is the last thing on my mind when it comes to marriage and so forth.

Well that's why there is the Chit Chat portion of the board. Sometimes it's fun to get to know other things about your fellow GCers instead of just their GLO.

I really don't see what the problem is. If you don't like them, don't read them. The fake ones get called out. I read the good ones, I disregard the dumb ones.

I will admit there are certain aspects of some recruitment stories I don't like:

- "Does anyone want to hear my recruitment story?"
-"I thought no one was reading"
-"I am a longtime lurker or a longtime GCer using a different name" (20something, you get a pass on that one )
-Thinking that "brutally honest" means having a license to talk shit about chapters (not 20something's use of "brutally honest")
-People who constantly beg for updates
-Fake stories
-Dragging your story out unnecessarily
-Including too few details to make a story worth reading


It's unfair to lump the stories of 20something, LeslieAnne, irishpipes, susan314, curlygirly, and honeychile (to name a few) in with the "stupid rush stories". However, I don't think that this thread will stop any other REAL posters who are GOOD writers with an INTERESTING story from sharing. At least I hope not.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by violetpretty

Well that's why there is the Chit Chat portion of the board. Sometimes it's fun to get to know other things about your fellow GCers instead of just their GLO.

Not to me. We're sharing our opinions of others' threads and posts.

[ASTalumna06]

Originally Posted by myopicsunflower

Perhaps people wouldn't mind the retro threads so much if they were A) short, wrapping it up in 1-3 posts over a couple of days; B) concise, since we don't need to know the nitty gritty of every single conversation someone had at each house; and C) TRUE.

THIS. For some reason, recruitment stories have become these drawn out, mind-numbing novels. Most of the time, I wait until a story is completely done before I start reading it. Even then, I don't read the entire thing. When a story starts out with 19 chapters, I find it completely unnecessary to read about the first round of recruitment. Usually, people don't remember a lot, and you really haven't been able to meet a lot of members, and half the time people actually waste their time by typing "I don't remember a whole lot about this party"... which then already indicates to me that there's a good chance that chapter won't show up in the next installment.

[sigmadiva]

I like to read the retro rush threads during lunch. They are great entertainment. And, as a non-NPCer, I can never tell when a poster has made up her story. So, for me until she is called out, I really enjoy the story.

I've learned more about NPC recruitment from GC than I ever did at Texas A&M. I had NPC friends, but they never went into any detail about the rush process. When I was at Texas A&M all I heard was 'Yeah, I rushed, got a bid to XYZ and now I am a member.' On GC I've learned more about the entire process from rec letter to bid.

So maybe for some of you NPC ladies its more like 'Aw, c'mon!!!' because you have been through the process yourselves. But for me, it's like 'Wow, that's a different way to recruit.'

[33girl]

Originally Posted by sigmadiva

I like to read the retro rush threads during lunch. They are great entertainment. And, as a non-NPCer, I can never tell when a poster has made up her story.

Yes, but the NPC women CAN, and one of the biggest problems with the NaNoWriMo crowd is that they use the oldest and most untrue stereotypes. Even if they have a positive ending (OMG, I joined what I thought was the loser chapter and I'm sooooo happy) they don't present an accurate picture of Greek life. Silly heifer who had alcohol at rush parties amd multiple locals at a supercompetitive school rushing with the NPC groups being the first one I can think of.

Put it this way. Imagine if someone wrote a "my journey through NPHC researching" thread and the phrase "paper bag test" came up.