Why is it always the same people complaining?
Red and Blue are made to help beginners.
Look at the sentence above, read it, understand it. They are not some feeder clan made to override clan restrictions. They are not a "step" to join some greater official clan. These are clans that have only one purpose - increasing retention by helping beginners assimilate into the community.
We provided clans with an ability to have trial ranks with { } brackets as an ultimate solution to "feeder clans issue" - that even happened before the public release of beginner clans (even though it was less important and was added to a to-do list significantly later) - and for some reason I don't see Parrot using it. So please, don't even use the "MUH PARAKEET" bullshit complaint in this thread because the fact that a feature was only added because of your constant whining isn't even being used by your clan.
Continuing on Red/Blue.
Yeah, they have official boards. Yeah, they are displayed above all other boards, have icons in their names (that have text explanations just like any other clan-related icon you see on the board) and colored names. Does that harm any other clan? No. If you have personal issues with them looking better than your clan, well, frankly we don't really care. It's same as complaining about staff members having colored names or exclusive ingame perms - as long as certain perks are required to serve the purpose of a group/clan, they won't be removed. You know what other perks these clans have? An ingame popup visible to every beginner and unlimited number of members. They will also be able to use the new type of wars before any other clan. And they're likely to get even more unique features in case staff decides that they're required to make these clans work better.
You're saying that beginner clans may negatively affect other clans, but you're being wrong again.
Unlike Parakeet that was targeted at good beginner players and was offering them a red carpet way to one of the most popular and elitist official clans, neither Blue or Red offer anything except for initial help at understanding how Toribash community works. We aren't targeting some specific group of beginners by their ingame or communication skills, these clans are available for every player below Black Belt, and most of those who join are going to have less than 100 Qi. They don't know what clans are, they don't know that the game has a forum - they're not the type of players any clan would accept. They could have created a small clan for free to get a tag if they discovered Clans, but this way they'd still likely stay isolated. Idea for beginner clans is to welcome new members, provide them with base guidance, then let them try theirselves in real clans by either creating one with their friends (including people they've already met in Red or Blue) or join one of the existing clans.
In that sense, the only thing that Red/Blue have in common with other Toribash clans is that they're based on same infrastructure. Players joining Red or Blue will never be able to become clan leaders. Yes, as HS members noted below they will be able to move up ranks, but that won't allow them to make significant decisions in the way clans are run. These clans will never get official clans' brackets ingame, nor they will be getting any structural development as any active clan would do. The idea is to make players who join eventually feel limited by the restrictions of beginner clans and get the urge to try theirselves in some other clans once they get comfortable enough with the community. This is an exact opposite of what a clan would normally do - you can start small (or not so small - see AS) and then develop into something greater. In a regular clan you can join as a recruit and grow to the rank of a leader with complete control over the clan; regular clan can compete in any event without any additional restrictions. This won't be the case for Red or Blue, and even though it's on Event Squad and Clan Squad to decide whether to allow beginner clans to participate in their clan-related events, I assume that neither Red nor Blue would be allowed to partake in any global competitions such as Clan League.
TL;DR - if you legitimaly think your clan is going to be affected by Red or Blue then your clan is shit and shouldn't exist as it's less appealing than a group that's likely going to reach ~1k members by the end of the month and allows no real perspectives.