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

[BadCat25]

I agree that most of the retro stories are total crap except mine, which is an enduring piece of autobiographical literature second only to The Education of Henry Adams.

[tld221]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

LMAO. It's so random as hell that it's funny as hell.

tld221: FAIL.

Lol damn, I'm usually good at these kinda things. Sigh.

[DrPhil]

If people started doing NPHC research threads, those threads would likely get closed immejjjjjjiately. LOL.

We don't need to hear about your journey to and through the NPHC. Retro or current.

Now watch some fools try to start that thread trend.

[Kevin]

7 pages into this...

Boy do y'all take your rush threads seriously. If some PNM really forms her world view based on reading fake rush stories on GC, she's going to have more problems than the ones we've helped create.

Oh noes. Teh falsehoods.

/back to my popcorn.

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by Kevin

Oh noes. Teh falsehoods.

/back to my popcorn.

This should be the the label.

ETA: I think we're only having this talk because no one talks about AI anymore.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by Kevin

7 pages into this...

Boy do y'all take your rush threads seriously. If some PNM really forms her world view based on reading fake rush stories on GC, she's going to have more problems than the ones we've helped create.

Oh noes. Teh falsehoods.

/back to my popcorn.

Kevin, don't get all uppity. This is no different than you shutting down rumor threads in the RM forum.

UGAalum94: the problem is, people get called out for being fake. They deny deny deny. The GCers in the kitchen with Dinah get pissed because they need their rush story fix and say DON'T SCARE HER OFF!! WE BELIEVE YOU, PNMSLUTT205! PLEEEEAASE COME BACK!

Like I said, if you're that desperate, go to the oldest pages of the recruitment stories forum.

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by 33girl

UGAalum94: the problem is, people get called out for being fake. They deny deny deny. The GCers in the kitchen with Dinah get pissed because they need their rush story fix and say DON'T SCARE HER OFF!! WE BELIEVE YOU, PNMSLUTT205! PLEEEEAASE COME BACK!

But sometimes what you want to hear is how the heck the poster is going to pull that junk together. I don't think the Kitchen GCers want the recruitment fix as much as they want to see if the literary feat gets pulled off or not.

It's the more outlandish ones that I hate to see end in the middle because it would be some amazing if it could be concluded.

For example: after having martinis at XYZ, and being verbally assaulted in the bathroom at TUV, we had to fill out our pref list. I really didn't know if my multiple personality disorder best friend from high school was going to get a bid, and I was tempted to put QRS number one just so we could be sisters. But when I went to my rush group I realized that MPDBF got invites back to ABC, the best sorority on campus.

Typical GC user: I think you're lying.

(Of course she's lying. That's not the point.)

Rush thread poster: well if that's how you feel, I'm not telling the rest.

Could she have generated a conclusion that united all the elements of the plot? Now we'll never know. We've read that crap for nothing.

[ASTalumna06]

Originally Posted by UGAalum94

But sometimes what you want to hear is how the heck the poster is going to pull that junk together. I don't think the Kitchen GCers want the recruitment fix as much as they want to see if the literary feat gets pulled off or not.

I completely agree.

I don't want to read a fake story with ponies and rainbows that leads to a bid with the "best chapter" on campus. Why even waste time making something like that up? But sometimes, even when everyone knows a story is fake, but it's filled with such nonsense and all kinds of crazy, to the point where it's actually entertaining and you don't really care that it's fiction because the person really is that insane, you kind of want to see where they go with it and how outlandish it can really get.

I liken it to watching the Real World. It claims it's real, you know that half of it isn't, but sometimes, you can't help but watch the ridiculous people on it fail at life.

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by ASTalumna06

I completely agree.

I don't want to read a fake story with ponies and rainbows that leads to a bid with the "best chapter" on campus. Why even waste time making something like that up? But sometimes, even when everyone knows a story is fake, but it's filled with such nonsense and all kinds of crazy, to the point where it's actually entertaining and you don't really care that it's fiction because the person really is that insane, you kind of want to see where they go with it and how outlandish it can really get.

I liken it to watching the Real World. It claims it's real, you know that half of it isn't, but sometimes, you can't help but watch the ridiculous people on it fail at life.

Exactly.

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Kevin, don't get all uppity. This is no different than you shutting down rumor threads in the RM forum.

Some difference actually.

Allowing a rumor which turns out to be false about a house could lead to an investigation. It could also mean civil liability for John.

A rush thread with fake houses based upon the Care Bears or My Little Pony or whatever isn't going to hurt anyone.

[DrPhil]

I think it is the kitchen statement that got them up in arms. She was not only saying those threads suck but she seemed to be labeling some of the GCers who tend to like them. LOL.

[DrPhil]

If I could turn back time. If I could find a way.

[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.