Creating new anonymous usernames is NOT the cool thing to do

[valkyrie]

Originally posted by ariesrising
I also think it's pretty sad that some IHQs have nothing better to do than hang out at social message boards and reprimand people who share their personal opinions and be themselves. That's a little too Katie Holmes Being Watched by Scientologists for me.

Can I get a HELL YEAH?!! I totally agree. Next thing you know each one of us will have a chaperone who will instruct us to say "She adores her sorority!"

[BetteDavisEyes]

Originally posted by ariesrising
I also think it's pretty sad that some IHQs have nothing better to do than hang out at social message boards and reprimand people who share their personal opinions and be themselves. That's a little too Katie Holmes Being Watched by Scientologists for me.

AMEN to that.

That's why I went from one name to another. I had to change it. Apparently, what I had once posted wasn't cool with some people so I was "asked" politely to change my name as well as delete an old LJ account & start a new one under a new one. Some people need to get lives.

EDIT: It's not that I ever posted something negative about my GLO. It's more that since PNM's might check the boards, some comments I had posted might reflect negatively on my GLO so it was decided that I should change my info.

[KSig RC]

you ate an entire wheel of cheese? i'm not even mad, i'm impressed

[sugar and spice]

Originally posted by ariesrising
I miss the days when the rush threads named names and people said what school they were at and gave real opinions. It just felt more honest. Now reading the rush threads are like kisses, sunshine, meadows and happy little deer in glades grazing near mountain streams.

I also think it's pretty sad that some IHQs have nothing better to do than hang out at social message boards and reprimand people who share their personal opinions and be themselves. That's a little too Katie Holmes Being Watched by Scientologists for me.

Word to all of this.

I don't know whether or not my IHQ has people reading this board, but I've never been reprimanded for anything I've posted here, and there's probably some stuff that was out of line.


Rob, you've got a dirty whorish mouth.

[kddani]

Inter/National Officers are only going to care if you make posts about your last gangbang, drugs that you did, crazy parties that your group was a part of, or otherwise really negative stuff. I would hope most of our NOs have much better things to do with their time that go through someone's GC posts to reprimand them for saying that recruitment should go back to being called rush.

And as for PNMs.... that's a whole 'nother ball of wax. Yes we're not judging orgs by their GCers, but a PNM only represents herself, a PNM. Not any particular group. So it's not like we're judging a school's entire group of PNMs by the dimwit posting a rush thread.

And for those who have changed their names previously... well, they had obvious reasons for doing so. Some people made some pretty wild/crazy/stupid/etc posts with their letters blazing in their sig and screenname. But then again, most of those people are pretty open about what username they used to be and aren't really hiding who they are. They learned from their mistakes and started over.

[JenMarie]

Is it that difficult to change your screen name? I thought that right was reserved for mods and such.

-Jen

[kddani]

all you have to do is ask John, several non-mod GCers have done it. Just gotta catch John when he's around, lol.

[moe.ron]

You all sucks

[33girl]

Originally posted by JenMarie
Is it that difficult to change your screen name? I thought that right was reserved for mods and such.

-Jen

Nope, Delta Sig Stan just did it and he's not a mod. tnxbutterfly changed hers before she was modded. Lots of people have done it.

I have no problem w/ anyone changing their name, but when you go on & on about how you're doing it to be panhellenic or promote unity or whatever, it really makes me wonder what sort of nasty things you said in some of your old posts. If you want to be "discreet" then just stay off GC till John can change your user name for you, and then start posting again. The bigger a deal you make of it, the bigger of a deal it will be, and it will kind of ruin the "discreet" thing.

[ilovemyglo]

It's funny, I was gone for what- basically a year, or two or so...
Barely posted/came on excepted to read the AGD forum. Didn't really post there either. I've been on GC since 98 or 99 or something ridiculous...
I used to post stuff I wouldn't dare post now (older, wiser, more discreet) but the ONE post I got bitched at by my IHQ was for something totally unrelated to anything sexual, nothing about drinking, nothing about boys- it was a post about a badge.
My name has never said my GLO and if I post something I think may reflect poorly on it I don't use my sig anymore.

And I have never had a problem saying what I think. Some tell me that is my problem...

But I still don't get the name changing thing, unless someone asks you to do it..
I mean if you have multiple personality disorder, I totally understand... but why else?

[kddani]

Originally posted by ilovemyglo
it was a post about a badge.

Wow, that's insane.

I would've told them strongly where to go well, in a nice way.

Those of you who are SO concerned with what your HQ thinks of you.... why? If you're not doing anything worthy of getting your badge pulled, why do you care so much? Why let an organization totally control you? I've been semi-reprimanded by our HQ for things i've said in our yahoo group and elsewhere. I've disagreed very strongly with some of our policies in our yahoogroup and elsewhere. I've had some passionate arguments with some of the HQ staff. That's my right and my freedom. Where in ANY of our manuals, rules, etc does it say that sorority sisters must agree on EVERYTHING? What kind of power do these people have over you that you feel the need to hide? Again, if you're not disrespecting your org and just posting your opinions, etc. THEY CAN'T DO ANYTHING TO YOU. And if they can/would, why would you want to be a part of that org?

In every group there's people that are power hungry and NEED for people to do everything they say how they say. But the fact is our orgs are made up of 10's of thousands of very different individuals with very different attitudes and beliefs. And some people don't realize it. But why let them get you down?

Our inter/national officers are not infalliable. Our HQ staffs are not infalliable. They're wrong sometimes. And that's okay. We disagree sometimes, and that's okay. That's why we live in this country (and Canada, lol). We can do that.

[Rudey]

http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...threadid=67975

There are tons of references to alcohol and being drunk or drugs on GC also.

But it shouldn't matter.

-Rudey

Originally posted by kddani
Inter/National Officers are only going to care if you make posts about your last gangbang, drugs that you did, crazy parties that your group was a part of, or otherwise really negative stuff. I would hope most of our NOs have much better things to do with their time that go through someone's GC posts to reprimand them for saying that recruitment should go back to being called rush.

And as for PNMs.... that's a whole 'nother ball of wax. Yes we're not judging orgs by their GCers, but a PNM only represents herself, a PNM. Not any particular group. So it's not like we're judging a school's entire group of PNMs by the dimwit posting a rush thread.

And for those who have changed their names previously... well, they had obvious reasons for doing so. Some people made some pretty wild/crazy/stupid/etc posts with their letters blazing in their sig and screenname. But then again, most of those people are pretty open about what username they used to be and aren't really hiding who they are. They learned from their mistakes and started over.

[kddani]

Originally posted by Rudey
http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...threadid=67975

There are tons of references to alcohol and being drunk or drugs on GC also.

But it shouldn't matter.

-Rudey

yes Rudey, i'm quite aware, but I could see org's HQs having a valid complaint against people for that

[JenMarie]

Originally posted by kddani
Wow, that's insane.

I would've told them strongly where to go well, in a nice way.

Those of you who are SO concerned with what your HQ thinks of you.... why? If you're not doing anything worthy of getting your badge pulled, why do you care so much? Why let an organization totally control you? I've been semi-reprimanded by our HQ for things i've said in our yahoo group and elsewhere. I've disagreed very strongly with some of our policies in our yahoogroup and elsewhere. I've had some passionate arguments with some of the HQ staff. That's my right and my freedom. Where in ANY of our manuals, rules, etc does it say that sorority sisters must agree on EVERYTHING? What kind of power do these people have over you that you feel the need to hide? Again, if you're not disrespecting your org and just posting your opinions, etc. THEY CAN'T DO ANYTHING TO YOU. And if they can/would, why would you want to be a part of that org?

In every group there's people that are power hungry and NEED for people to do everything they say how they say. But the fact is our orgs are made up of 10's of thousands of very different individuals with very different attitudes and beliefs. And some people don't realize it. But why let them get you down?

Our inter/national officers are not infalliable. Our HQ staffs are not infalliable. They're wrong sometimes. And that's okay. We disagree sometimes, and that's okay. That's why we live in this country (and Canada, lol). We can do that.

I don't have an HQ, but I have, in the past, been told to keep my trap shut on various topics by older sisters. But I agree with you that someone's HQ shouldn't be playing "Big Brother" on a public forum.

Granted the topic I started in Rush probably wasn't the best time to break out a new SN because yes it seems petty and stupid to "disguise" myself.

Honestly I just wanted to change my name a while ago, but never knew I could transfer my old posts to my new name without being a mod or something.

So I'll just hang out and wait until John gets back to me.

-Jen
(formally known as chideltjen)

[WCUgirl]

Originally posted by kddani
In every group there's people that are power hungry and NEED for people to do everything they say how they say.

Isn't this kind of what you're trying to do? You've started a thread bitching about people doing what they want to do...and saying it's not cool for them to do it.

People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones...

-AXiD670
--okay, I admit it, I'm really omega2