Groups

bodawei
 April 16, 2010, 04:01 AM posted in General Discussion

In 'Most Popular Groups' there are lots of groups with one member and zero posts.  Actually there are only two categories: 'Most Popular Groups' and 'New Groups'.  The former category is false advertising, and very annoying.  We need a better way to find useful groups.  

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bababardwan
 April 16, 2010, 04:07 AM

The one member groups are probably very popular with those who don't like cliques,hehe ;)

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xiaophil
 April 16, 2010, 04:20 AM

Actually, if we look at the so-called most popular groups, besides the General Discussion group, which really isn't a group if you ask me, most of the groups are inactive or are close to inactive.  Check out the number two "most popular" group, News新闻. It has been discontinued.  I find it frustrating that new members will be mislead into thinking that those groups are where the action is, but more recent groups, such as my I Have a Question and Transcripts With Tal (two groups among others that I think have been and could still be useful), will appear relatively unpopular since those they don't have the advantage of being around during the golden days of CPod.

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bodawei
 April 16, 2010, 04:58 AM

It should be relatively easy for ChinesePod to get this right (eg. rank them in order to total responses/members).  At the moment it counts 'posts' (the original post) - this is not a good reflection of popularity.  

BTW - I'm pretty sure that this aspect of the site is unchanged - it was always thus? 

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bodawei
 April 16, 2010, 05:03 AM

There is another issue alluded to by Xiaophil - there may be groups that are 'good and new' - these may not yet rank highly in the popularity stakes.  A better measure may be 'average responses per month'.

And another problem we were alerted to by Tal - we will not be aware of posts to Groups until we join  ('subscribe' to?) that group.  Is joining the same as subscribing?   

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changye
 April 16, 2010, 05:06 AM

The current most popular group is "test v2" (with no comment) posted by kimiik. The second is "San Diego", the third "Chongqing". I agree that Chongqing is a very populated city, but not so popular here in the Chinesepod forum.

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bodawei

No, it is too far west of Shanghai. ;-) The West of China has always been a 'thorn in the side.'

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changye

Right. That's a very "thorny" region in many ways.

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bodawei
 April 16, 2010, 05:35 AM

No, it is too far west of Shanghai. ;-) The West of China has always been a 'thorn in the side.'

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changye
 April 16, 2010, 05:39 AM

Right. That's a very "thorny" region in many ways.

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xiao_liang
 April 16, 2010, 07:32 AM

I've found lots of useful discussions in groups - having them displayed more prominently in the new design is really important I think.