All in all, we've discovered that forum clans are actually quite the minority in the current official clans. There are only a few clans who've reached 50 posts on their board per month, but failed to be active in the ingame activity check. More often then not it's actually clans that have green in forum activity and yellow in-game. These clans still fail the activity check tho, so we want to push them towards the game. The "forum clans" you talk about are mostly utterly dead, active on discord or irc.

As for replay and art clans, I mean, there are orgs based around art and replays. If by "replay" clans you mean clans like [T], you yourself know that those guys are active with their members elsewhere, be it discord or IRC.

I know the first warning list may have looked pretty intimidating, but most of the yellows were actually fairly close to passing, had they gotten a few more games in.

As per exceptions, no, not really. Considering that forum activity is green when you have 50 posts on your board per month, it isn't exactly hard to see that people are, in-fact, dead.

And lastly, as stated, we are actively discussing legendary clans as of now. We definitely plan on adding clans that deserve it if they do die in the check. If you feel like your clan has a rich history, community presence, list of achievements, you can be sure there is discussion about the clan going on. You can even suggest clans if you so chose to, send your nominations to clan squad members.