From my understanding Parakeet was made so we'd get to know more people who would otherwise be unknown. I have never been a famous person, staff, and didn't really know people in Parrot for the most part, but here I am, in Parrot for like 3-4 years and I feel like I fit in and made a lot of friends. Truth is, that age where we would accept random people who seemed cool and had a good app are somewhat over. We've built up a reputation and consider our member spots a lot highly that we'd rather not risk adding some random person we don't know who made a good app. While just adding well known people is good and all, it doesn't add a WHOLE LOT of interesting discussions and such.

So, we decided to have an unofficial clan for people to assimilate into Parrot. Its not strictly a feeder clan, more of an extension to the Parrot community. While this may seem pointless to some, its simply the most convenient one for us. We are a clan that heavily uses irc still and only a portion of us use Discord. Instead of having interested people hang out in irc to meet some of us and use Discord to meet some more, and post in our forums to meet with the rest, why not just just give them an existing community? The reasoning is simple: People don't like to wait. A person who isn't well known but would otherwise be an enjoyable addition would probably not get in for a few weeks, and eventually give up and join another clan. Another recruit lost because we're strict in our applicants.

Instead of that, extend them an invite to Parakeet. They may find that they enjoy the players there enough to stay, and maybe if they're more close to the Parrot clan we can send them an invite. I really don't see a moral issue with this. we aren't doing this for a higher membercap, we aren't going to farm wars on them (you can spy on our war history if you don't believe me), and the argument that we're going to ruin other unofficial clans is honestly a little ridiculous. Does anyone remember Bleu? Clans were thriving even though they were accepting any and all applicants, which is more than Parakeet would accept.


I'm just trying to get our point across without being rude, a lot of other Parrots feel extremely shafted because we put a lot of work into this only for it to be shut down for what some people believe is a personal beef, which I can personally attest to as a real possibility.