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Thanks for the break down.

So it's not the site that has an agenda, it's just some posters. Already knew that.

cricketts?

Wow!!! How challenging does being an Editor is? Mine that days they are choosing me to be the one but i am still young that time and i choose being an Editorial Staff only.,..

Who else will got that mark being enthusiastic? But for those who know the true privilege of being THE ONE....

You're doing a great job, Mario. You have diligently responded. You have been clear, fair and patient. Just thought some words of gratitude may be in order. :)

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If they don't answer my question(front page) by tomorrow, I would have no choice but to investigate that mystery...

Did they ask you to speak for them?

i am speaking for hundreds of people....

HUNZEDOG -- YOU HAVE POSTED ENOUGH ON THIS THREAD, YOU ARE FLOODING IT. I AM ALL FOR LEGALIZATION BUT PLEASE ENOUGH ALREADY.

34=76 = 110 people put positive stories about cannabis on current.
just in H.E.M.P. (655 stories) and Make Marijuana Matter (286 stories)

110 people put 941 positive stories about Marijuana on current in the last few months.
how many got picked for tv? two ...........the winners are

ctv with Medical Marijuana
and
current89 with Obama Issues New Medical Marijuana Policy.
congradulations guys..........2 stories in damn near a thousand ?

here are some more people who have taken their time to add positive Cannabis stories to current......

Bailey78
MinneapolisMafia
TheBrownKid
future-america
fillmore
Bjarmar
somebodyswatchin
bastonial
twoon
THE_INDIVIDUALS
pjacobs51
dontslowmedown
ctv
wirehedd
markbutkus
julimc
sk8r408
trav gts
shawnsmeds420
ProjectBat
devincalloway
MirrorLake
ajrmy
Nipahc
VincentSquatch
chrismorrow
SHAWN RITTIMAN
The Jerry Madden
cola 444
a-d-4-m
brinna
michizzle
clitav
dagloman

Thanks, Mario :)

i dont think you are there...i will leave you be..you read my questions and try to give me a better anwer than you talked about it before in some other article. why ignore those 76 people who put 286 stories on here..good positive stories about cannabis.
DONT HATE THE PLAYA HATE THE GAME............

76 people 286 stories and yall only pick one....the one with OBAMA In it ?
it was a good one mario-a. it was the one where the president of the united states said that marijuana is medicine.....we could do things like change the schedule and change the laws if you werent so worried about something.......is all of current racist against Cannabis Reform Laws or is it just mario-a ?

did you know that 100 million have tried Cannabis. 60 million smoke regularly.....
sick people use it for medicine ....but mario-a doesnt think it belongs in the news..
i found 700 people on here to be my friend and my avitar is a bong.

mario-a wrote
It is improperly added to groups that it shouldn’t be. For example, a story about marijuana legalization added to News, Music, Movies, Green, Tech, and Comedy will commonly get removed from Music, Movies, Green, Tech, and Comedy

hunzedog wrote; give Cannabis its own group...ITS EASY FOR YOU TO SAY I DONT BELONG IN ANY GROUP; AND I CANT HAVE A GROUP EITHER........

MARIO-A IS TRYING TO TAKE AWAY HUNZEDOGS 1ST AMMENDMENT RIGHTS.

thats a pretty high horse you ride there mario-a.

About being in a political side, its not the staff, but the community which voted those specfic articles up, ihatethemall...

I didn't get an answer...
My suspicion is growing about those causes..

mario-a said
There are typically two reasons why content appears to be pushed down:

It is voted down by the community.

It is improperly added to groups that it shouldn’t be. For example, a story about marijuana legalization added to News, Music, Movies, Green, Tech, and Comedy will commonly get removed from Music, Movies, Green, Tech, and Comedy.

hunzedog said= its hard to tell what the community is voting for without telling us the results....just saying. you ask us to vote show us the outcome. because cannabis belongs in all of those catagories. it is in music movies green tech and comedy.
would you say gay people shouldnt have music or movies or care about the planet.
or that they are not smart enough for teck or that a stoner couldnt possibly be funny...

you know what mario-a. i will wait 4 ya

mario-a wrote
It’s easy to believe that something like this is true, but it’s just not in line with reality. First, we don’t have an agenda in play when selecting stories. We routinely hang all personal biases up at the door with our coats when we come into work. True, we select stories to feature based on the criteria I listed before, but we do not actively push content down in popularity. Period.

There are typically two reasons why content appears to be pushed down:

It is voted down by the community.

It is improperly added to groups that it shouldn’t be. For example, a story about marijuana legalization added to News, Music, Movies, Green, Tech, and Comedy will commonly get removed from Music, Movies, Green, Tech, and Comedy

guess your not here

one example of number facts
gay stories= 6978
gay picked for tv= 1458

marijuana stories= 5334
marijuana picked for tv= 110

whats that ratio ? heres a ratio for ya. america wastes 1600 dollars a second on the war against marijuana....how much healthcare would that buy.....i just solved two of americas problems in one sentence with cannabis. and yall standing in the way of progress.....for shame..........

in no particular order and i apologize for any spelling errors........
Jack Herer......
Herbal-Minded
Trilogic
jmsrmy
rodstradamus
Sahuaro
DeliaTheArtist
TheSkunk
xiola
americandrugwar
conservativeliberty
Day2Day1inSociety
subject2change
missmissea
n-dank
peoples movement
wenis101
WTFitsMeSarah
kingfugazi
kirthsb27
pjacob51
current spider
geode
atomiclegion
bansheewail
copperdragon
ksutherland27
vierotchika
ras-menelik
MIHEMP
Fishahouse777
RFIDemocracy
franksalot
wakeuppeople
remann0851
funkadelic83
jucie
current89
dragon1984
space mikey
tonail
tecolote420
shanklinmike
Conniepae
synjun
dudefromtherock
unimatrix
Darevalo
sharprichard
sickinjersey
Virtual-Will-Roger
pcole
Peacekitten
america4hemp
kaseyrae
incredulous
jamindime
freshfish
btucker
breakthepower
shawnhamilton
greenerside
locotus
bryanblack
blaino
Hassan
simplecj
dmandel
BUILDUSMAXIMUS
Ruby Video
Michael Davies
afitzgerald
boykit
RevelInNewYork
MonsterOfFolk
khsing

these people all addes stories to Make Marijuana Matter. These 76 people took time out of there lives to put stories on your website.

these 76 people added 286 stories to MMM and guess how many stories got picked for tv?

ONE = congradulations current89...
Obama Issues Medical Marijuana Policy

thats it...the other 75 of ya aint worth a ? thanks for wasting your time helping our website with stories that get the most hits....no matter how hard we try to hide it.......................puh-leaz

when i stopped watching current there was that one dumb phone commercial or LL talking about the devil weed...........

i represent 132 OWNERS of the MAKE MARIJUANA MATTER GROUP. there might be bigger groups but we have the most moderators.!.people that started this group to see POSITIVE stories about Cannabis on current tv.....many contribute heavily.daily without the overdue exposure.....what gives ? .

hunzegate

there is a good cuban vangaurd story

i got it. you use current as a commercial about yourself. like the commercials im watching on the tv where you pimp other shows. then look at current videos ticker on the website..... i never once saw a pot leaf in those pictures....... but the rainbow picture has remained constant. you just changed the vangaurd picture of that chick in the yellow bikini... that had been on for months and months and months.....you are one big commercial about yourself. you have agendas.....mario-a admit it.
hell; mario-a doesnt think hunzedog can even count..........hunzedog can count mario-a ......hunzedog can count.
....bark,bark,bark,bark,bark,bark,bark,bark,bark,bark,bark,bark,bark,bark.

rotten tomatoes........or JanForGore says its illegal to grow your own tomatoes..
whats more important for the planet?

im shure current will lead the way to doing something like that....i thought it could..now i gotta try to watch it agian.........here goes....

you know what , ille twll you what i think. i think i THOUGHT that current was a place i could go and try to change the world. i believe the computer should be used to run this country right. we dont need congress people anymore.. they have become obsolete....just give everybody a computer and a vote......they are just there to represent us anyway....just with reckless spending and a huge carbon footprint..
so after we fire all those co)ksuckers; the people of america will need a way to run the country. it will be done on the computer eventually......the sooner the better.
current could be / could have been that place........
riddle me this.do you take moneys from chemical companies?oil companies?pharmaceutical?tobacco?GM?GE?GMO?military?insurance?political?
cuz sometimes it feels political
if your gunna be biased just be biased.....but dont call me stupid

good answer. ih ate the mall .......they do act as though we are too stupid to see whats really going on ! to much lipstick and showbiz on current tv. i cant stand watching it for all the finally fast commercials ect, maybe current just needs another channel. i like movies and lipstick too. but i know all i want to know about korean transvestites and whats it in fashion and music and just plain old hollywood bullshit. current has an agenda ! if you dont see it your to close to it.! im glad you guys got famous and a slick new commercial show.......i joined current to change the world. now i have already changed the channel...... if i am purposely not represented here i will change the website i choose to work for..............for free

Its extremely obvious what you look for. You look for subjects that prop up the agenda of obama and the dnc. Look at the top 20 news stories. a good portion of them have less then 100 views and responses that are often under 10. Its your toy and you can play with it how you want but please dont think we are stupid. we can see what stories matter here. Pro obama, pro healthcare, pro DNC.

Do you also look for articles about what you feature on Current and post them in every freaking category??

O.k. read it. Idea,...the community demands "complete transparency of process; show us your books and flow-chart of procedural process",...or it doesn't.
Same old, same old,....but everyone here is volunteer labor,....so its not life or death.

note....Nettle,....Jan,.....something about this discussion between you two brings to mind Demeter+Persephone,....."green" Jan as the "Democratic Demeter" and Nettle; the thorny new growing thingy,----you get it,..(or not). Far better to play "as a team" than consign us all to lament the Grey Wastes of Hades,...where nothing ever really changes or gets done. Zombies, Stoners, and Greeners alike can all provide compost TOGETHER,.....to provide a GREATER fertilizer! ( hand buckets to the stoners in advance, they like to light things up,....a lot.)

WOW! havent finished reading all this yet,..(told you I was slow),...but INDIE FILM!?! makes the TOP list!?! Seriously,,,,I LIKE Indie film,....but still.........

Damn,..............a community,........O.K.,...........like everyone here,.....slow reader,....will chime in,......

Would anyone answer the forgotten question of how did people get locked out of their account for apparently no reason, I'd like to know..

im going back on strike........no weed no work ! no weed no work ! no weed no work !

vampires like that

I think everyone needs a spanking and I will be glad to administer them.

its 5 on friday.....make em buy drinks or something........

i tried feedback@current but a couple a questions never got returned.@ a couple of them did..i like results....did you draw the short straw mario-a.........

its been a long week. i feel like that coyote and that dog. JanForGore should have more airtime. The stories she shares are always informative and mostly ignored.She always has a good backstory and always answers any questions with more proof. these are things that are important to the planet really.
"i like movies and lipstick and comedy and everything current has become." its great tv and yall got it going on. its timed perfect and spit polished to a high shine..i kinda miss the old current where everybody got on tv. yall dun went and got 2 good for us peeons...oh piss boy .....

Alright everyone, let's all take a deep breath here.

This thread is about sharing information, so let's keep that in mind.

@JanforGore -- on a separate note, the implication that you feel that your questions are somehow intentionally ignored confounds, and frankly disappoints me. There are a great many ways to get your questions answered, and my teams have always made themselves available for Q&A. If we miss some, it may be due to the volume on the site.

For the record, the best way to get any questions answered would be to send them to feedback [at] current.com.

mario

My tone is not usually sour and the fact you think you can monitor my tone here is truly arrogant. Now I sure hope you are going to get off my back in this thread.

News, Music, Movies, Green, Tech, and Comedy Cannabis is intertwined into the fabric of all those groups. and its the greenest plant on the planet......oh well , guess its just me.......name on movie star who doesnt smoke pot and they arent good. name one musician who doesnt smoke pot besides nugent. comedy, hahaha dont even try to go there. how many would still be here if they only smoked pot ? lots.......and finally tech.....didnt that guy that invented "tech" smoke a little herb....yep think so! oh well its just me !

Now THAT'S a decent question without the usual sour tone. Thanks!

Now you are simply baiting and trying to derail the conversation. The request which wasn't directed to you since you aren't staff here was valid and there was nothing rude about it. Just truthful. Not getting a response will simply reinforce that truth. But I will not only request again I will be more specific: Why is it that with all of the mountains of verifiable journalistic information that has been put up about Monsanto and GMOS and their relationship with this government has that not been featured on TV on Current? This is certainly not news you find in the MSM, and yet it is virtually ignored here. So again, what is the criteria for featuring a story on Current? This has the votes, it is always at the top of the group when posted, and there is interest in it. I do hope you respond about this. Thank you.

you know , being in the wrong group and all.

It is improperly added to groups that it shouldn’t be. For example, a story about marijuana legalization added to News, Music, Movies, Green, Tech, and Comedy will commonly get removed from Music, Movies, Green, Tech, and Comedy.

would you say that about gays or transvestites mario-a ?

i bet you wouldnt !

"Explore popular groups or start one of your own"

I say show the popular groups to begin with and we "CAN" explore them....fairly.!
just cuz "YOU" say its popular isnt helping high rollers like the squirrel group ! its been front page since the inception of groups; and seven people have joined it.

"SHOW" the popular groups. or dont call em popular groups. call them the 100 groups that current wants you to look at...............

Explore popular groups or start one of your own

thats what current says ^.....but the squirrel group has 7 people in it (i am one)
but many "POPULAR GROUPS" ARE CANNABIS RELATED AND THEY get no GROUP Listings.
again ; why dont you just have a top 100 most joined groups list.. thats the only way to be fair. untill that happens or we can see the stats on what story is getting voted on more we dont have any idea of whats going on behind the scenes.....and it sucks cuz some people spend alot of time on here putting on stories..... i see how many people comment on which stories that are on here. should i be lead to believe that something with 100 comments on it somehow miraculously gets less votes everytime than some stuff you just keep on the frontpage for whatever reason. ?
for days on end while everybody else on here ignores it.?

RAWR !!!!!!!!!

CAT FIGHT

Hissssssssss...

Maybe you should stay out of it.

Maybe if you asked politely and without the scathing hissing you'd get an answer.

Perhaps you could then explain the criteria for picking a story to air on TV. Because from some I have seen, they don't all meet your editorial criteria. That is if you decide to respond. My questions are usually ignored here.

It’s easy to believe that something like this is true, but it’s just not in line with reality. First, we don’t have an agenda in play when selecting stories. We routinely hang all personal biases up at the door with our coats when we come into work. True, we select stories to feature based on the criteria I listed before, but we do not actively push content down in popularity. Period.

There are typically two reasons why content appears to be pushed down:

It is voted down by the community.

It is improperly added to groups that it shouldn’t be. For example, a story about marijuana legalization added to News, Music, Movies, Green, Tech, and Comedy will commonly get removed from Music, Movies, Green, Tech, and Comedy.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
SOME THINGS DESERVE THEIR OWN GROUP TOO ; LIKE CANNABIS.
you wont let it into GREEN group............the GREEN group wont allow stories about Cannabis. or even a little side note in groups lists and those are the stories that get the most hits. yall did it again this week with a headliner that only got 4 comments.not naming any names...... Marijuana is what the people want to talk about.. hell put it in the comedy section !

but i understand most of the junk i do on here is not current worthy tv quality commercial grade really want to see on tv anyway but.........i like the idea about a website where ordinary people can see other ordinary people doing what they care about......like current just needs a current unplugged or something....for the rest of us trolls................and here we are....

Cannabis needs its own damn group.,..thats why i am here. i am sick of the news being spoonfed to me. i want to know what the fuck is going on in my country, and you can look at any poll you want to. Cannabis Reform is Big News Right Now.

does current inhale ? or does it suck ? i see lots of stories with no interest whatsoever posted twice ....come on guys and gals........

yall got the best website tho.....big ups..........legalize it !

fire it up !

show us the lists too. inquiring minds want to know !