There is a christian, buddhist, etc social group forum, but there are no social group forums for atheism, just social groups, which are not the same thing.

Will someone start a social group FORUM for Atheism? I don't have the power to do this as I am not a chat leader, or whatever the requirement was.

[Yoda]

I thought once you got twenty or twenty-five members social groups showed up in the feed like a forum. We have 170 members in the skeptics social group.

It should show up in the forum then. Maybe one of the moderators can explain.

[Yoda]

It doesn't show up for me either. I have no idea why. I think there is a way to block forums you do not want to see so they won't cover up the ones that are more interesting but I haven't figured out how to do that yet.

[lizardlady]

A social group does not automatically have a forum when it reaches the required number of members. The owner of the social group has to take steps to create the forum. Sorry, I don't remember what they have to do.

If I remember correctly there was discussion in the Skeptics forum a while back about creating a forum for the group and folks wanted to just have the social group.

The reason y'all are not seeing a forum for the Skeptics group is that one was never created. I would encourage anyone interested to come join us in the social group.

You can find the group here
http://forums.psychcentral.com/groups/skeptics.html

[DocJohn]

Social groups are managed by their owners, not us (the community support team).

As Lizardlady said, it is incumbent upon a social group owner that once it attains the minimum number of members -- 25 -- they enable the forum for that group. Some owners may not want to do so for whatever reasons, but it's their choice. We can't make someone do it...

[-jimi-]

How is one supposed to join ANY group that doesn't show???

[lizardlady]

Originally Posted by -jimi-

How is one supposed to join ANY group that doesn't show???

Jimi, click on "social groups" on the menu bar near the top of the page. A list of about eleven zillion different social groups will pop up. There's a short description of the group and a thing you can click to join. There's a search option so you can search for whatever kind of group you are interested in, though I find it interesting to scroll through the list.