Originally Posted by
sir
Why is it always the same people complaining?
Red and Blue are made to help beginners.
Look at the sentence above, read it, understand it. They are not some feeder clan made to override clan restrictions. They are not a "step" to join some greater official clan. These are clans that have only one purpose - increasing retention by helping beginners assimilate into the community.
We provided clans with an ability to have trial ranks with { } brackets as an ultimate solution to "feeder clans issue" - that even happened before the public release of beginner clans (even though it was less important and was added to a to-do list significantly later) - and for some reason I don't see Parrot using it. So please, don't even use the "MUH PARAKEET" bullshit complaint in this thread because the fact that a feature was only added because of your constant whining isn't even being used by your clan.
The only thing I dont agree with in these clans is the belt restriction; I understand that the clans are for beginners and helping the beginners to learn the game. However, to me, this means that the clans should be run however is most beneficial for beginners (hence the use of discord rather than IRC and the clan being free for all and advertised in beginner servers); I believe that allowing high belts to join the clan can only benefit the beginners that are there, they can learn the way the game works and how it is run from these sorts of players as well as them giving the beginners seomthing to aim for and something to aspire to be like. This was the same reason a ladder of ranks was originally proposed in these clans, so that a sense of accomplishment and progress could be achieved and so that the beginners had something to aim for.
Not allowing higher belts into these clans gives the beginners a smaller pool of expierence to draw from and removes any sense of aspiration from the clan imo. Perhaps most importantly,
I dont understand what the beginners would lose from having higher belts in the clan.
Last edited by SmallBowl; Jan 12, 2018 at 02:02 PM.