Some of my personal thoughts, not anyhow related to CS decisions:
Is there any good reason to have a sidekick clan apart from trying to evade the clan system limitations? Well sure, you can recruit new players more recklessly - simply because they don't wear your clan's main tag and you can always appeal to the fact that it's just a feeder clan in case they turn out to be idiots. I remember 2010's Russian clans doing that, but back then there wasn't a proper clan system yet and it was mainly done by "bigger" clans like Hack.
However, recruiting members just for the sake of getting more people doesn't seem like a good idea to me, especially for a clan that's been around for years now. Can you still get more people without the feeder clan? Sure. Yes, you'll need to take a closer look at your applicants first, but there is nothing extraordinary about it. We've raised the member cap for all clans who are at least slightly active (getting past level 10 isn't that hard, see [AS]), so it's less of an issue than it could be few months ago before the clan system update.
Having feeder clans officially allowed also poses a threat to any other legitimate unofficial clan as players may just join a child clan of an already official one rather than risk their time and TC trying to become official on their own.
To me this whole situation looks like Parrot (being one of the oldest active clans with 50% staff or ex-staff members) thought they could do anything just because they are who they are, but it turned out they can't. You still had at least 10 free spots in your clan after the clan update, go play some wars if you need more. Like seriously, you only have 66 wars and the clan has been around since the clans system was introduced. All Stars had more wars this week than you had in the last 2 years, like are you being serious? There are 9 clans founded in 2017 who were more active than Parrot, what makes your clan more special than them? (Quick tip: winning a clan event does, but not in that sense)
Your whole bullshit argument there sir is based on the unfounded assumption that we created Parakeet just to avoid a membercap.
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So kindly piss off with your bullshit argument based on membercap limits, sir.
That was not the case. We wanted to develop players who wouldn't normally get into Parrot into players who could. Not a lot of people who apply for Parrot end up getting in. Parakeet would develop members into better members. That was the point of it.
Y'all saying that Parakeet was made because Parrot wants to see a new wave of players in their group, but want to maintain the image and prestige that people associate with the clan name.
Because of this, y'all cannot just pick any random person out there, and those who join rarely fit the quota (assuming they weren't discouraged to apply at all).
Instead of relying on the current recruitment system, you folks decide to make a child clan as a way to "mold" players into what you deem fit instead of sitting there hoping someone good shows up. A mutually beneficial relationship.
A more active way of working with the community to increase your ranks w/o being saturated with crap.
Eh?
Yes and no. We aren't afraid to hide that we're pretty elitist, but you don't have to try and make us look like jerks for it. We aren't trying to mold people to our fitting, just trying to scope out any outstanding members who would otherwise be unseen. Also, Parakeets isn't totally made just to feed members into Parrot, its another separate community that we can take part in while also making sure we have at least a little bit of control who's in it, just a lot less strict as Parrot is.
I don't have anything to add to this thread anymore, but I stopped by to address your response and defuse some bad vibes.
No, I am not trying to make you guys look like jerks. To say people don't join clans for a sense of importance would be a lie; I have no problem with cherry picking elitists lol.
Keep the negativity astray. I am actually supportive.
<Fear> whatever the intention of this clan is, in my eyes its objectively an elaborate loophole past several limitations which tthe clan system purposefully imposes
<Fear> its not against any written rules no
<Fear> that doesnt make the concept ok,
it doesnt mean it doesn't circumvent the limitation and growth
aspects of the toriclan system, it doesn't mean real unofficial
clans arent gonna be squashed, it doesn't mean this isn't
essentially a creative way to put your clan's app thread in the
unofficial board
Actually I think quite a few people can already see this rationale, however people seem particularly annoyed that this decision came down like a ton of bricks and should have happened before Parakeet was launched, which is true and has already been apologized for, but in case you didn't read that, sorry.