Originally Posted by
Erth
If the incentive that tips your clan into activity is post count then your clan deserves to die because that's an awful reason.
Post count doesn't matter.
Naturally that's not my only reason for posting in my clan thread. If it was, my clan wouldn't be as active as it is, because, as it stands, my posts don't go up for posting there. Some people are like this, I never said everyone is, it's merely one of many points.
Originally Posted by
Erth
The posts in the clan discussion board not counting towards your post count was removed years ago because all you had was people spamming posts and forum games that entailed 1 word posts, which wasn't the worst thing in the world but it was spam city in some places. This removed the ability for this to be done for anything other than fun, as some places would specifically abuse this to raise their post count.
I haven't looked through all of the official organizations, but the ones that I have like Team Aikido, Toribash Tricktionary, NoOT, etc., have no forum games in them. Are they not allowed? If so, why not simply outlaw them in Clan Boards? The rule in place says that meaningless spam isn't allowed. It would require a bit more moderation from Clan Squad but it would solve that issue.
Originally Posted by
Erth
P.S Ofcourse we have an active members only chat. It's infinitely easier than using the forum. If anything, the clan system should adapt to the fact that forums are less and less useful these days. The system has to a degree, with new clans not even requiring a post, but imo more should be done to accommodate the lack of necessary forum activity when one has a clan.
A bit off topic, but say this was the case. How would the official clan process change? As far as I can tell, reasonable forum activity is required to even be considered for official.