Er, why are clan staff acting like this is something that has just arisen? "In light of a recent incident"
Clans have been doing this for years, Evil has done it many times, and even Sir said he can remember Russian clans doing the same thing in 2010.
That's my biggest issue with it, why is this only being addressed after literally 7/8 years?

Also, most of the arguments here about how it is unfair to new unofficial clans etc are pretty much void with the introduction of free clans. You have all these trolls clans running about, countless clans with 1-2 members who never post a description thread, and so on. Most new players only want a fancy clan tag and don't care much for the history of a clan.
With the free clan rule you've harmed the clan system more than ever and yet you think that these sister clans are the ones taking away members and hurting other unofficial clans?

I'm never one to bash on staff but c'mon guys this is just dumb.