Groups

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Groups is a feature of Route 50 that allows members to socialize with each other and gather gallery entries, officially released on December 31st, 2010. Route 50 users are permitted to have ownership of up to four groups, while Cooltrainer status allows a user to own a fifth. Members of a group may add gallery entries to a group's gallery and initiate Discussions- comment threads. Group admins are permitted to: 1) remove or invite members, 2) remove gallery entries, and 3) post News entries. Typically, a Group's homepage features a list of officers, a Featured Submission widget, a Recent Gallery Submissions widget, a list of new members, the most recent News post, and a list of discussions.
==Types of Groups==
===Official groups===
There are four "official" Groups in the community, denoted by a marble law house icon. The four Official groups are: The Signpost, The Artist's Alliance, The Reader's Circle, and the Writer's Guild. The Signpost is the official Route 50 Group and is operated by Kat, while the latter three are operated by Rt50 Executive Xetaja.
===Pokemon Coalitions===
There are numerous Pokemon coalition groups across Route 50 oriented around a single Pokemon species. Each Pokemon coalition group usually has a patron nation whose flag acts as the background of its icon. The trend began when Sparkleaf created the Furret Alliance (currently owned by Frosti) with three Furrets over a German flag background and the slogan "Wiensor Energie". The Pokemon coalition groups include:
Name 	Owner 	Country	Slogan 	Mascot
Furret Alliance 	Frosti 	Germany	WIESENIOR ENERGIE! 	Scout (Furret)
Floatzel Force 	Grovyle 	Britain	Mustéflott et mon droit 	Fo'shizzle (Floatzel)
Cherrim Clique 	Hana-Chan 	Japan 	チェリムは最高です！ 	N/A
Pummeluff League	RubyPikachu	N/A 	We've got Jigglypuffs! 	Purin (Jigglypuff)
Froslass Faction	Nechaken 	Canada 	Avant tout, nous sommes Momartik	Belle (Froslass)
Linoone League 	Sparkleaf 	U.S. 	Linoone and justice for all! 	Kayla (Linoone)