Holy what a fuckin awful idea
What happens when your feeder clan becomes too big? Do you make ANOTHER sub-clan to feed into that one? What happens when all the other old official clans with reputations that precede them make feeder clans?
This is a pretty small community. I remember one of the first threads I made was a list of players, tallying at around 1200 (I think?). I'm willing to bet there are about 300 more players than I had counted - but that still leaves you with a crazy percenage of the whole community in your little evil empire. If other clans follow suit, you could easily end up with almost half the community in like five or six clans + sub-clans totally killing the clan community.
As for teacher//teachee relationships, a clan I used to have totally had that relationship with the old [Vibe]. Me and the people in the clan were all new, but we became friends with people in Vibe by interacting in the community. A few of us actually went on to join vibe after we dissolved. Were we at all directionally influenced by Vibe? Absolutely not. There's no need to make a feeder clan to get new people acquainted with the community, just fucking talk to them.
And thats really what irks me about this. You have people complaining on here about getting new members and not being able to accept random members, as if an application thread is the only way to meet new people. Y'all apparently have your own airtight parrot-bubble to the point where you can't deign to interact with the community at large and meet people that way?? Fuckin talk to people, this whole thing is way too pretentious.
Also lmao at the people blaming (((tribe)))