Okay, let's see if this works. Here's the idea:

1: Bookmark this discussion. This way you can be sure to be able to find it again. This is important for this to work.

2: When you see a discussion, either an old or a new one, on ChinesePod that you think illuminates some feature of Chinese or otherwise contains gems of wisdom on Chinese grammar, post a link to it here.

3: Please don't make any posts whatsoever in this discussion that do not contain links to great grammar discussions. Let's try to keep this list clean. It's not really supposed to be a discussion, but more of an archive.

The idea is that this will let people find the good grammar discussions easier by simply going to this topic and searchin on the page. And since we have it bookmarked, we can always find this page. Also, whenever we post to it, it will get bumped and thus show clearly on the discussions page.

Please write the name of the discussion and a short description of what's so great about it, and provide a link. Note that it doesn't have to be discussions solely about grammar. If there's something very interesting said about grammar in a lesson discussion, do post a link. But the interesting thing has to be in the discussion, not the lesson.

I'm not sure if this'll work, but it's worth a try.

Okay, let's try this thread in the Grammar Discussions group, instead.

1: Bookmark this discussion. This way you can be sure to be able to find it again. This is important for this to work.

2: When you see a discussion, either an old or a new one, on ChinesePod that you think illuminates some feature of Chinese or otherwise contains gems of wisdom on Chinese grammar, post a link to it here.

3: Please don't make any posts whatsoever in this discussion that do not contain links to great grammar discussions. Let's try to keep this list clean. It's not really supposed to be a discussion, but more of an archive.

The idea is that this will let people find the good grammar discussions easier by simply going to this topic and searchin on the page. And since we have it bookmarked, we can always find this page. Also, whenever we post to it, it will get bumped and thus show clearly on the discussions page.

Please write the name of the discussion and a short description of what's so great about it, and provide a link. Note that it doesn't have to be discussions solely about grammar. If there's something very interesting said about grammar in a lesson discussion, do post a link. But the interesting thing has to be in the discussion, not the lesson.

I'm not sure if this'll work, but it's worth a try.

John, Catherine and Jenny have told us in the April 25 News & Features how the CPod team are discussing ways to make our User Groups--those Groups we users created--easily accessible so that they can keep thriving, not get lost and shrivel up. So I guess we can look forward to some changes toward a lot more user-friendliness in this area soon. 期待期待！

Meanwhile I wanted a place for us users to talk about this. Some of us have founded, or have been actively involved in some really interesting User Groups, and might like to give those a little PR--let people know they exist. Please feel free to start a thread here and do that!

I've recently suggested that the Community Rankings tab show us a list of the top ten most active User Groups instead of the top ten most frequent commenting users. I guess though it's cool to keep the yearly top 10 users contributing the most conversations. Looking back to past years, it's interesting to see those prolific users who have moved on, likewise those who have stayed on! And I guess for long-time CPoddies there's a lot of nostalgic value in those lists.
(but I still really wouldn't mind if the Weekly and Monthly rankings were done away with. the whole idea seems so 过时 to me, in this "new environment" we have now  ...)

And if we were to have a Rankings for the Most Active User Groups it should probably be more like the Top 20 or 30. Ten would be too few.

Anyway--欢迎大家来介绍介绍你们最喜欢的小组！ Come up here and let us know about your favorite User Groups!