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It would be a fantastic feature of the groups page to simply have a sort-by popularity button on it. Also would be nice to have the ability to "show all subgroups" for each of the categories instead of getting the parent group when you click on a category on the groups page.

Good luck on the redesigns.

thanks to whoever put make marijuana matter back into the top groups list. but could you take my group down and put Jack Herer's H.E.M.P. group up instead. he is my hero and without him i would not be here !
kudos to current.. i will tell all my friends. and thanks to maria_a for keeping it civil....i know all the pro-cannabis people thank you too......

lol, your group is now in the featured section of the groups page.

i want to see it stay there.

to quote rush limb-awwwwwwww out of context and for a more positive reason
"right on right on right on right on right on"

good on ya hunzedog.

all these made the cut, why . ?

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step 2 deleting our groups. what cha wanna do that for.

hemp and mmm have 250 people combined. im not talking about most people joined in a day/week/month whatever. im talking about the TOP 100 groups being
listed at all times. like it is right now but with exposure based on how many people want to see it. by joining sites it would be like voting all the time. let the most popular groups to the top........it seems fairer to me....
just saying ! thanks....

@hunzedog and @spacemikey -- let me answer a few of your questions/proposals:

1. Groups page layout (http://current.com/groups/) -- we have changes planned for this page in future releases. The plan is to display the most popular in list views. One of those views will include the most popular groups of the day. These will be auto-generated based on a combination of TOTAL members, ACTIVE members, stories contributed to the group, etc. We have a few big projects in the pipeline, but this is definitely a part of the plan.

2. Deleting your groups -- this is also in the plan, but much further down the list of priorities.

3. Herbophobia on Current.com -- this a fallacy. We've promoted marijuana-related groups and stories on several occasions, both on the /groups page and on the homepage. Our community often votes up an occasional marijuana story which makes it onto our homepage as well. Consider the following:

The two most popular marijuana groups on the site in the last 30 days are (edit note: I added the clarification of "the last 30 days" after realizing this may be confusing to some):

- "Make Marijuana Matter" (owned by hunzedog) -- it has 24 members, and in the past 30 days ranks as the #5 most popular group.

- "H.E.M.P." (owned by JackHerer) -- it has 10 members and over the past 30 days sits at the 15th most popular group.

All of the other marijuana groups in the system have only 2-5 members apiece, and while "Make Marijuana Matter" and "H.E.M.P." are both popular, that doesn't mean that all marijuana stories posted on Current.com are going to be voted up by the rest of the community.

We pick stories for featuring, but the community also plays a hand in this. If something isn't growing in popularity, we might not choose to feature it. That said, the Herbophobia you mentioned might actually be the result of members of the community not liking what is posted.

Lastly, we also take timeliness into account when picking stories to feature. We update features stories frequently, and even if a story is popular in a popular group, it might not meet our other criteria for featuring (e.g. timeliness or relevance).

Thanks,
mario

There are several other questions I want to ask them, and its due to some people being closed out of their account without any reason......For which the staff has moved out the user from..Take for example, onechance..

wonder why they dont do it.? is it hard to do...? it sure makes alot more sense to me !

Great topic thanks for the submission Hunzedog. The groups feature is absolutely retarded and counter productive. Since there are only so many groups the current staffers should just list all the groups and THEN provide a keyword search as a backup or extra tool. Seriously how much crack does one have to consume to reach the opinion that searching for something you may or may not be aware/interested in is easier done through a keyword search instead of a categorized list of all the active groups?

What's really mindboggling is that each group page operates exactly as I just described, so the idea is by no means new to the community.

they already have about a hundred groups. why not just show the ones with the most people on it ? whats the point in making groups if the best ones arent represented. thats like hiding the chocolate chip cookies from a fat kid. you know he is gunna find them cookies. would you please help make it easier to find the cookies we want. ! or the peanut butter cups.? whatever....

the groups listings are kind of a mess, i found a group for electronic dance music with only 1 other person in it, maybe a top 100 group list will make finding groups easier to join.

yes , now that a couple of reporters know what its like first hand to be held against their will in jail for something that well. {Its not up to me to say what is right or wrong.}
but thats how you get treated for smoking cannabis. i wonder now if anybody at current who might smoke a joint in your bubble bath. to have the doors kicked in and to be taken to a place like (gitmo) for smoking a herb.
i was one of the first folks to wish those girls well when they got snatched up . i knew they were smart. i knew they would be ok because of it. but when they bash cannabis because of the criminals who are forced to sell it to us because of our dumbass laws..who are you helping here.
i wonder if they would like to see their friends sent to jail because they choose to use cannabis now?

I see it, current is more for promoting sodomy, which makes me want to go smoke a joint and forget about; at the same time they seem to have a little "Herbaphobia" going on.

You're right dog, and I really don't want to see one of there Vanguard reporters, destroying or bad mouthing marijuana anymore I don't care who grew it.

Look just because for legal reasons your users can't technically bring their pot "out of closet", doesn't mean you should contribute to a "herbaphobic" society...

It's crazy they got a whole H.E.M.P. section, and then send clearly biased reporters out with the DEA to hunt the devil weed....

And creators should have more options...

A house divided......

I wonder if there is a way to delete groups i have started but dont really want anymore ?

I don't like NOT being able to arrange posts in a group I created. I see it done on the 'news' group , where older posts are moved to the top of the list... why are other groups prevented from the same type of control?

I would like more options to arrange posts as 'the creater' of a group.