For the record, our clan is far from dying, it's pretty active. If it was dying then certainly nobody would be thinking about adding a child clan.

Also we've asked a lot of people to apply in weird and wonderful ways, and generally the people who are up to the challenge are accepted. We've had people dance, write and sing us songs about oranges, get strangers on the street to tell us to invite them, ride a unicycle in a parrot costume and make a video tutorial on how to make a balloon parrot just to name a few. It's just a bit of fun, the vast majority of the time applications aren't contingent on this, it's just if we weren't going to accept them in the first place but want to give them a chance to make us lose our shit and yell welcome.

Anyway, as rai said in the other thread, to move this forward apparently somebody needs to make a thread in the S&I board on how to make this work. Seems fair enough

If other clans are using Discord and the IRC to get to know potential members, that's all good, we're not against that.
Why bash the idea of something different though?
It's not like we don't allow people to hang out in our Discord/IRC to get to know us, but Parakeet is more for the people we may have not even heard about before. New members of the community will look at [Parrot] and think, "I'd never get accepted into a clan like that, they're way too big/popular." I'm speaking from experience too. I didn't even have enough confidence (I guess?) to apply for Parrot until I was more or less "known" in the community.

Think of it from a beginner's point of view. He may have one of the best personalities out there, but in his eyes, he's new, he doesn't know anybody from the clan and he doesn't feel he'd be accepted by any chance whatsoever. He then applies to a less known, smaller clan, because he is confident he'd have a chance. I'm not saying new players don't have a chance to join Parrot obviously, I'm saying that the high majority of new players wouldn't think they had the chance to join so they wouldn't apply whatsoever.

New players would see (Parakeet) and see that it's a smaller, possibly less known clan.(dunno about now though seeing as a huge deal was made about it)
They'd then obviously think that applying is an option and may or may not apply but the choice to apply is way more likely.

If we need to make an S&I thread to show you that this isn't some plan to workaround the member cap or boost our XP or farm achievements etc. then sure, we're up for that challenge.

You could've talked to us about it and asked us to change things if needed before shutting us down completely after not even 2 days. Thanks.

I've made the S&I thread, click here. Post there to brainstorm alternate solutions (meaning, not a blanket ban on 'multi-clans') to the problems perceived by clan staff. The S&I thread should contain no shade-throwing.

Like Ele said, this discussion is going to continue in S&I.

http://forum.toribash.com/showthread.php?t=604699

I'm going to go ahead and close this.