We should start focusing on getting this idea going. As I said in the other thread, I'd like to convert the knights into a support group clan that is dedicated to being helpful and a positive influence. People would join it on request, no voting at all, just come right in, when they want to help others or if they need help. Things to help with can be things helping with an emotional crisis someone is having in their life, helping with depression, helping with thoughts of suicide, helping with breakups, all that stuff. And an atmosphere of positive attitudes I think can help a lot of the tensions we have. A private place that non-registered people can't see and that an admin or mod has to add someone to can make people feel safe about talking about their feelings, such as someone trying to deal with coming out as gay/bi/trans and not wanting their family to know just yet. It happens and I think will help.
We obviously can't just have one clan so I think other ideas on what to have are important. One I idea I had was to have a clan for each element and having a theme around all of them. Like forest, water, wind, spirit, shadow, whatever. We can also do other things. I think they should all have a color. Color is something people have complained is too exclusive. If we make it something casual that anyone can easily get, we can make people feel more on the same level and ease tensions. We can run friendly competitions between clans. It's something I think can help us solve a lot of the problems we've been having and that we can use to cultivate a more positive atmosphere for now on. I really think we should work together to brainstorm ideas of what we can do to make this work and things we can do to expand what we already came up with. We have people who plan competitions all the time, I'm sure they can come up with some clever ideas for clan competitions. We have a lot of potential here that we can work on and it'd be a shame to let it go to waste.