"Don't worry about it!" - Reaching Consensus on Misc. Topics

Colleges & Universities A-Z University of California - Los Angeles
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<p>Regarding Jewelery Storage, Chess, Tennis, and Other Topics: </p>

<p>Polo Shirts: Yes, people wear them. The sample of CC users suggests that some wear them vigorously (e.g. namaste)
Jewelry Storage: Yes, protect them with your life to quell those demonic spirits of concern. Via anecdote: in some extreme cases where beautiful jewlery is out in the open and readily available, the person managed to safeguard their jewelry with minimal effort. </p>

<p>Games (Infantry, Go, Chess, Tennis, Swimming): Other than the Tennis thread, I don't think there's very much else going in regards to the more specific interests. In that case, <a href="http://www.studentgroups.ucla.edu%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.studentgroups.ucla.edu&lt;/a> or a Facebook search for any relevant groups. There's always listing it in your interests and stalking people that way as well - probably the most uncomfortable option. It's more productive than posting it on CC though where the most active/visible users consist of the following users along with a number of lurkers with sub-10 post counts: </p>

<p>BoelterHall
namaste
mme-lin
Flopsy
UCLAri
allena
Hibiscuspink
hater<em>of</em>haters
dawritingmachine
...and others. </p>

<p>From the sample of users above, you have incoming freshmen with a million questions or sarcastic remarks. You also have the few dinosaurs who usually post to only specific topics. Then, there are 2010 kids who... yes OK the ones with the thousand+ post counts. </p>

<p>In other words, as BoelterHall, ucapplicant05, VTECaddict, and others have put it, a lot of the questions (non-connecting users via hobbies/interests) have dealt with topics or concerns of vastly minute concerns or worries that should be mostly dealt with via personal preferences or (uncommonly?) common sense.</p>

<p>I think the best questions on CC are probably those that involve specific classes in regards to teaching style, relevant books, and approaches to studying. That, and things that cannot be obtained via searching through UCLA's webpage. I think highly generalized questions involving factions of the student body or any other subjects that can't be answered objectively in regards to a highly minute concern (e.g. jewlery storage) are useful. Otherwise, the rest (i.e. the current stream of threads) involve personal opinion, connecting via chatroom-esque threads, and well, the "inane" (hibiscuspink). What do you guys think? </p>

<p>DWAI DWAI DWAI!</p>

<p>If anything, at least post the most bizarre questions in this thread if they plague you so much. It makes the forum a lot cleaner and well, consolidated... leaving room for more "college-related issues" (BoelterHall). Just a suggestion! Private messages also work too if you need to follow-up with a user on playing tennis at Sunset or swimming at SAC and that sort of thing.</p>

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<p>You know what? Why don’t we just set up a chat room tonight (say sometime around 8-11PM PDT. I think a few hours of outside discussion could end the plague .</p>

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<p>I coined DWAI! In an IM with Boelter! And then he took all the credit for it. Grr.</p>

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<p>Hilarious. DWAI</p>

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<p>Sorry, I got it patented first. :cool:</p>

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<p>Yeah here’s the truth. Being a freshmen at a huge school like UCLA is tough. Believe me I don’t know how I did. I’m only a second year now but I accomplished so much in my first year, and really, it just happened. YOu can’t worry or obsess over things. You go with the flow.</p>

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<p>If this is the “random questions” thread, I’ve been meaning to ask this for awhile. I know UCLA has a massive library. Does it work at all like local public libraries where you can check out actual “reading” books, or is it strictly for research material?</p>

<p>Like, say for example I wanted to check out Fight Club or Choke by Chuck Palahnuik. Would this be at all possible? Basically does the library cover enough breadth to include more than your Great Gatsby’s and Catcher in the Rye’s?</p>

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<p>us dinosaurs only post in specific threads now because we’ve been through 19 cycles of the same silly questions year after year and patience diminishes significantly as you become so aged.</p>

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<p>and you can check out anything you want unless they’re reference materials. </p>

<p>there are like 63 1/2 libraries here. they cover everything.</p>

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<p>I don’t know if I agree with this so much. Public forum = post whatever you want within the TOS. There will always be a crowd that’s interested in a topic, even if you aren’t. And honestly, no one takes this place(being an internet message board) so seriously as to carefully brainstorm what he/she is about to post and deliberate on its relevance before submitting. </p>

<p>I, personally, would rather this place be active and have something new going on whenever I log on than have it be dead save one thread where only messages of the utmost importance are being posted.</p>

<p>My two cents.</p>

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<p>Well it’s not necessarily that it’s only “important” questions. Having threads on whether or not storing jewelry is safe is a bit much, isn’t? I think that’s why Ari created the Bar - to at least lessen the stress on the more ridiculous threads. This isn’t to suggest that it should (why would it?) be limited to specific threads and topics. More recently, there’s been a clog. Other posters have noted this as well. I’m not claiming to be a moderator of any sort. So, what’s the consensus?</p>

<p>That and there are also a series of the same questions under different guises: who’s interested in ________.</p>

<p>There’s a difference between utilizing the public forum and then just posting silly questions (which seems to be agreed upon by other users although not always explicitly.</p>

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<p>Oh no .. I don’t wear polos so I’m in deep trouble. :rolleyes:</p>

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<p>Well, the Bar has been oft-ignored in asking random questions; I suppose that’s why it’s been unstickyed. Later on, it was mostly random thoughts and stories (yea, the emm-moldau-liyana triumvirate comes to mind).</p>

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<p>Isn’t there a limit to the number of stickies? I was under the impression it was moved to let in room for the mikemac thread.</p>

<p>Yeah the Bar became dominated by *****ing.</p>

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<p>public forum be damned, im sorry, but sometimes extraneous threads are annoying and relatively sophomoric. they don’t add anything to the board and i don’t think its better to have an active, annoying board than it is to have a quieter board with more real, helpful, and informative threads. </p>

<p>the obsession over life’s minutiae is sometimes baffling. it’s college, not mars. and really, if someone can get into UCLA they can probably stand to take 4 seconds to evaluate the ridiculousness (or validity) of whatever question they have. the internet is not an excuse to be stupid. it’s not brainstorming. it’s common sense. </p>

<p>condensing extraneous or closed-ended questions in one place frees up the board for the topics which are better served and received in this kind of forum.</p>

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<p>Agreed. I mean, c’mon, these are common sense questions. Could you just call up friends or ask your parents instead? Sure, this forum is a place to ask about UCLA life, but it’s more conductive to ask stuff about UCLA related material like classes or books and such.</p>

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<p>Hey… I actually (try to) use discretion when posting. :rolleyes:</p>

<p>Let’s not dismiss some of those threads completely; they do provide some comic relief from the more serious stuff. :slight_smile: I just prefer it not be extreme to the extent exhibited by the College Life forum. Maybe some of us might want to spend a bit more time there first. ;)</p>

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<p>lol +1
Kudos to the likes of Flopsy who have the fortitude to continue posting so much :)</p>