[Discussion] Clan Focus
Now, this is something that's been on my mind for the past little while, ever since we've become official. The main point of this thread is to discuss where our focus for the clan lies, as well as where we want this clan to go. Ele addressed this briefly in the War Squad Reform thread but it didn't really get discussed extensively.
So, I'd say everyone who is currently in the clan has proven themselves to be a pretty good all-round person, with pretty interesting personalities, and we each have something very concrete to bring to the clan. For Insane, it's his art. For Triton and Galaxy, it's their ingame skill and war activity, etc. We have a pretty well-rounded group right now, with people in a lot of different facets of the toribash community.
Right now, we are sitting at ~18 members (if I counted correctly), with new people applying occasionally. My question now is, what sort of people do we want joining the clan? Where should our focus lie? And, if our focus has changed from when this clan was made, what can we do to make sure that new applicants understand what we are looking for?
If we are looking at the main clan discussion thread, we are "a personality-based clan". We want people with "common sense" and a "sharp wit". Heck our main page even goes as far as to say, "Do you have what it takes to join TLDR? We don't think so - if we did, we'd probably have already invited you by now. Prove us wrong." If this is what we are going to go by, then applicants we take in should be few and far between. Only exemplary applicants should be allowed in by these standards.
Now, I like the people we have so far. I think we should keep our high standards and not worry too much about gaining too many more members. We are nearing the twenty member mark which I think isn't too little or too many. I think if people want to join, we should be exclusive, as we prided ourselves on when the clan was created.
This goes further than just clan applications though, that's just what's been on my mind lately. I just really wanted to open up a dialogue here to get some thoughts going about where we are and where we want to be.
So main question:
What should the clan focus be?