Greek Chat - should membership be closed?

[SWTXBelle]

. . . . for coming up with the name Happy Pony Rainbow Land . ..I'm gonna check and see . . .

eta - I believe our winner is AChiOSnap! Correct me if I'm wrong, but according to my search, she came up with Smiley Happy Pony Rainbow Land on 4/4/07.

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by AOII_LB93

Wow...see what happens when I go to work again? Could someone PM me with what happy pony rainbow land is if you don't want to post it? I must have missed that part of the convo.

Happy Pony Rainbow land is the site that BatShit and Earpie created together where everyone is welcome to post about anything they want - so long as they agree with Batshit and Earpie, and it qualifies as sunshine up the ass.

It's almost exactly like GC in format, and in fact they stole several announcements and posts from here. They didn't even bother to change "GreekChat" to their forum's name, they just cut and pasted.

Anyone who they feel is being attacked here, they PM (Subject: Tom Earp, I'm sure) to come over to their site. Funny though, most of those people who have become active posters over there are still just as active over here.

GC really IS like crack, apparently - the methadone just doesn't do. They need the real deal.

[kathykd2005]

I still post here because I like to think I'm resilient. Maybe I'm just kidding myself, though. Maybe it really is just the crack factor.

[AOII_LB93]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

Happy Pony Rainbow land is the site that BatShit and Earpie created together where everyone is welcome to post about anything they want - so long as they agree with Batshit and Earpie, and it qualifies as sunshine up the ass.

It's almost exactly like GC in format, and in fact they stole several announcements and posts from here. They didn't even bother to change "GreekChat" to their forum's name, they just cut and pasted.

Anyone who they feel is being attacked here, they PM (Subject: Tom Earp, I'm sure) to come over to their site. Funny though, most of those people who have become active posters over there are still just as active over here.

GC really IS like crack, apparently - the methadone just doesn't do. They need the real deal.

I went over there...and wow...just wow - what drugs are being doled out upon membership? Yeah, you're 48, 500lbs, married to a goat with herpes? You should totally go through recruitment!

Granted not everything here is rainbows, puppies and sunshine....but sh*t neither is life. As far as being attacked, crap it's an internet message board. If what is on the internet bothers you that much, maybe don't leave the house because real life might just come bite you in the ass.

[Jen]

500lbs married to goats with herpes people need sisterhood too!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by Jen

500lbs married to goats with herpes people need sisterhood too!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gamma Phi Eta - Goat Fat Herpes...

I hear they're doing a joint rush/AI next week.

[SWTXBelle]

Ummm . . .I don't like the Gamma Phi part of that - can we request a do-over???

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

Ummm . . .I don't like the Gamma Phi part of that - can we request a do-over???

Gamma Eta Phi?

[LPIDelta]

That was actually Gamma PHEE Eta...not Gamma FI Eta.

[icelandelf]

okay THAT made me choke on my Dr. Pepper

HPRL is like the Stepford version of GC.

[mystikchick]

Originally Posted by Jen

Tons of people have managed to find their way to GC and become part of the community over the years. Those that find it easy to mesh with the GC culture are people who have thick skins, know their shit and either lurk for a long time to get the feel of the place, or they do their searching and research so they avoid posting things we've all seen a million times.

My advice for newbies - lurking is the best advice that I can give outside the words USE SEARCH. If I was showing up as a newbie, I'd try and watch the atmosphere, suss out what the place is like, then start posting on a few innocuous social threads in Chit Chat before I'd jump into serious conversation that I might not realize the history to in this place.

If you're coming on here because you have a specific question, make sure it hasn't been answered before (it mostly likely has; be creative with searching). Be polite when you ask. If you get snarked at, ignore it - even better, check yourself. You might be a trainwreck waiting to happen.


*Use of the word 'you' is strictly for demo purposes only. No specific 'you' is being addressed. If you think you're 'you', then you're mistaken. You're not 'you'.*

Truer words were never spoken. I realize I haven't been registered here for a long time, but I lurked for a good year or something like that before joining to ask a question. Before I posted that question, I did my research, went to the website in question, sent an email, and THEN came and posted. What was the result? I got support and extremely helpful advice about how to proceed. No snark, no nastiness, nothing.

It's not necessarily that people are mean, but when you (again, a GENERAL you) come on, post something that could easily be answered by a search, don't take the time to browse around the site but leap straight to posting your new thread, and compound those sins with unintelligible grammar and attitude when called out on stuff instead of attempting to explain yourself in a clearer, more reasonable manner, well, you're asking for it. And for pete's sake, don't take things so personally. It's the internet.

ETA: Clearly this thread has gone other places since Jen posted, but I wanted to get in my two cents.

[mystikchick]

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

http://www.neuticles.com/index1.html

I don't know whether to be amused or alarmed that that's not the first time I've seen that site...

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by mystikchick

Truer words were never spoken. I realize I haven't been registered here for a long time, but I lurked for a good year or something like that before joining to ask a question. Before I posted that question, I did my research, went to the website in question, sent an email, and THEN came and posted. What was the result? I got support and extremely helpful advice about how to proceed. No snark, no nastiness, nothing.

It's not necessarily that people are mean, but when you (again, a GENERAL you) come on, post something that could easily be answered by a search, don't take the time to browse around the site but leap straight to posting your new thread, and compound those sins with unintelligible grammar and attitude when called out on stuff instead of attempting to explain yourself in a clearer, more reasonable manner, well, you're asking for it. And for pete's sake, don't take things so personally. It's the internet.

Good post, good post.

Originally Posted by mystikchick

ETA: Clearly this thread has gone other places since Jen posted, but I wanted to get in my two cents.

Meh...this thread's been pretty much a free-for-all...throw in all the change you want.

[AlexMack]

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

Ummm . . .I don't like the Gamma Phi part of that - can we request a do-over???

FYI SWTXBelle, I totally insulted you in a chitchat thread by calling you a piss-poor mother. What, my degradations aren't good enough for you?

I would also like to propose that we no longer use the word pony in relation to that other site. I happen to like ponies. Can we use goat instead? Happy goats and rainbows land. Where they have to bribe people to go over there because otherwise no one would give two shits. If it's so great, why aren't they staying there? Why are they still here?

God I go to Florida for a week and miss out on all the fun. Teh Cult lives on in spirit.

[SWTXBelle]

Hey, AlexMack, if we change it to goats, aren't we revealing too much ritual???
And BRIBES? There were bribes? Jeez, all I got was pm invitations . . .