I just don't think either of you are taking this very seriously. I feel like I'm the only one that recognizes that the clan may be fun, but in the whole grand scheme of things we're pretty pathetic. We're a clan that barely has a handful of active members with no particular achievements of mention, we're dying all the time and we never do anything about it. And here you guys act like all we need to do to be deserving of official status is reach a certain page. Not just you, Gabe. Don too. He's under the illusion all we need to do is be forum active and disregards the actual game entirely. Sorry for my lack of motivation for getting anything done, but honestly what's it going to help. We can get superficial things done like work on ranks and banners, but what does that actually directly affect? What we need is to get the members we already have more active and we need more members. We have only a fraction of our actually active members in our Skype chat and the people that refuse to be in the Skype chat don't want to be IRC active either. Right now all we have is the oldies in the clan circlejerking and having a good time while it feels like the rest of the clan just isn't in the loop with us.
I know I'm super all over the place, it's just that all my thoughts in general about this are a little jumbled up and the fact that I don't even want to put in the effort to address it doesn't make it easier.
I'll continue putting in effort when I have other people working with me that actually want to put in effort as well. Right now we have a bunch of people throwing around useless, empty ideas that they themselves don't want to follow through with - but no actual progress. Just to throw this out there... I worked (quite intensively) with Abel to try to get our event off the ground, and even though Abel quit before we could follow through with it entirely, I was happy to help as much as I did. I saw someone with a good idea who had the initiative to pull it off and I made sure I did all I could to help. Try to follow his example.
I just earlier moved members around. We have 13 people in the clan who aren't 'clan accounts' or in the inactive rank. There are more people I'm looking to move. There's a place to start. Get into a habit of warring every night. Do something.
I'll PM Zwift right now and ask him for his Skype or work with him over the forums to get this done.
I'll rename the fucking ranks for you.
I've already told you what needs to be done for me to greenlight our application for official. Hell, I'll even take the "me not hating being here" prerequisite.