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

[ellebud]

I thought the "value" of recruitment stories was the informational value that they had for young women who were about to rush. I read some stories that were honest, interesting (except I admit for the three pages of Good Lucks) and informative. Then came what I term the "outing" (of the school, the sororities in question) and the "don't tell anything because you will be found out." The threads started to become more and more pc...and useless for a young woman trying to decode recruitment.

I think that the fantasy threads are a result of the two factions: future fiction writers and super sleuths who need to point out the error of their ways. And as someone who wrote, two or three years ago, a "brutally honest" story about rush in the time of anti semitism, feel free not to read it. But shall we mull over the possibilities of this whole section: Posting realtime truth (as the pnm sees it) the pnm is threatened with identity exposure and flamed. Post a thread right afterward and you are under scrutiny for the truthfulness if everything was perfect. (and rightly so) Post it years later, with a point (or without) and people are bored and/or suspicious.

Has anyone noticed that in the old days at the end of the thread the writer would reveal the school and sometimes even the key to the code of names? And life as we knew it went on.

[ThetaPrincess24]

Originally Posted by ellebud

Has anyone noticed that in the old days at the end of the thread the writer would reveal the school and sometimes even the key to the code of names? And life as we knew it went on.

That made them worth reading for me! Now I find them to be dull, even the live ones.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by ellebud

But shall we mull over the possibilities of this whole section: Posting realtime truth (as the pnm sees it) the pnm is threatened with identity exposure and flamed. Post a thread right afterward and you are under scrutiny for the truthfulness if everything was perfect. (and rightly so) Post it years later, with a point (or without) and people are bored and/or suspicious.

Has anyone noticed that in the old days at the end of the thread the writer would reveal the school and sometimes even the key to the code of names? And life as we knew it went on.

The thing that has pissed people off is that people use not naming the schools as an excuse to be "brutally honest" which really means "insulting and degrading." I read one of the old threads (by UCLAgirl if you want to look for it) last night, and she was honest but never, ever rude. Oh, and I remembered another reason people started using the code names - the "shameless plugs" that people used to do for their group. I'd rather see "go Milky Way" than a certain poster's relentless, huge fonted, multi colored shameless plugs. It made some people uncomfy - they thought it might be dirty rushing - and it was just downright obnoxious, especially since for all the pluggers knew, the girl writing the story could have had 3 heads.

I don't think "threaten" is the right word - obviously people like to figure out what school and which group is what, that's human nature. But posters on here are for the most part good at not outing others even if they do get it. Where they have gotten into trouble is when people from their school read the story (without necessarily registering or making themselves known) and there's repercussions for them down the line.

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Where they have gotten into trouble is when people from their school read the story (without necessarily registering or making themselves known) and there's repercussions for them down the line.

Right. What people fail to realize is that recruitment threads come back to bite PNMs because SOMEONE FROM THEIR SCHOOL was reading it. Alot of the time, it's not a registered GCer, but just an active who just happened to be reading. Folks forget that you don't have to register or post to read stuff.

[UGAalum94]

The shameless plug thing makes me have a little distrust for all recruitment threads, even the ones we hold as basically true.

Didn't we talk about this angle once before, (not that we can't talk about it again)? But I kind of remember talking about real time threads vs. retro threads, and some of us had a distinct preference for the honestly that retro threads lost in how the OP presented the results.

If you know you're an XYZ you might be a whole lot less likely to discuss how awkward you felt there second round.

Not that it's a big deal or a reason not to write them.