<p>^^</p>
<p>Though, as far as I know, the entire concept started with Oberlin; they still have their own site. The really interesting thing is, if you go back to early WesACBs on livejournal, they are being used for actual confessions and such. It has been on a slow decline as it becomes more of a campus fixture and ■■■■■■ get attracted to it. </p>
<p>The ACB is a mixed bag. I am proud of the fact that we (Wes) still manage not to have very many “biggest sluts on campus” type posts (and normally when some tries to start one, people just respond with jokes - “Michael Roth,” our school president, is a standard response to this kind of thing). But some people still do get slandered, which sucks. OTOH, some good things do come out of the ACB. It’s very useful around class selection time (to find out info about profs), and more than once I’ve spent a night during exam week switching between studying and commiserating with and asking questions of people in my class - people I probably only knew by face and never would have gotten to talk to that way. And during the shooting last semester it was a pretty amazing source of news and support - it was encouraging that the ■■■■■■ and the catty threads all but disappeared during that time.</p>