Rule Proposal for Individuals Creating New Clans

[Xoria]

Should prior membership in another Discovery clan be a prerequisite for leading/proposing another clan?

I say yes.

This will help insure the following :

1. The person has spent some time at Disco already

2. The person will know and be known by other members of the Disco community

3. The person will have been exposed to the way clans operate at Disco and have some understanding of the work involved in running a clan.

4. The person's conduct in another clan will tell the rest of us a lot about how responsible, mature, and creative they are...all being qualities critical to successful clan leadership.

5. If they were in a leadership position in another clan, then they will have firsthand experience about the work involved in running a clan, and the problems (both interpersonal and administrative) that clan leaders have to deal with.



The ONLY reason to create a new clan at Disco is if it is going to ADD to the community in some way. This forum and server belong to all of us, and no one has the right to play here in any way that disregards the gameplay of the rest of us. There is only so much that can be learned from a written clan proposal. The fact is that the proposal is only as good as the members and leadership that will be bringing it to the server, and the rest of us have a right to know what sort of people will be leading a clan that we will have to adjust our gameplay for. There is no better way to learn about what sort of players and leaders people will be than to have experience interacting with them as a part of a team, and from a practical standpoint that means prior clan membership.

Now think about it : aren't many of our criticisms of new clan proposals related to the fact that many of the proposed new clan leaders have never been a member of any other Disco clan? We don't know who they are and we don't know if they have what it takes to lead people. Fundamentally, leading a clan means leading people, and Leadership is a skill that most people do NOT possess, either naturally or as a learned behavior. Leadership is a position that must be EARNED, and it is earned through proving yourself to possess good judgment, creativity, and (in this case) solid roleplaying skills (among other traits).

There is no better way to learn this about someone than by evaluating their conduct in one of Disco's already existing clans.

So I propose :

All new clan leaders proposing a new clan must have a history of membership in good standing with at least one already existing Disco clan for a period of at least one month prior to proposing and leading their own clan. "Good Standing" is defined as being an active member who has not been expelled from the clan, or received any Server Rule sanctions involving character/account bans in the month prior to the clan proposal.

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