Internet Ponies are SRS BUSINESS

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So it's time for some SRS BUSINESS. Mars and I and a few other people have been musing about the direction we want the clan to go, and here are some of our thoughts:

• We like playing with cool people, and it seems like everypony else does, too. 

• We also like winning, especially clan ops, where our IMPORTANT DIGITAL BADGES give us warm fuzzies every time thousands of clans filled with chumps don't get shiny gold ones.

• It seems like there's a core group of players we see all the time, and a pretty big chunk of people we never ever hear from.

• holy moly there are a ton of people who want to join the clan

 So, with that in mind, we started thinking about what we can do to make being part of the clan a better experience, as well as more interactive/community oriented. There are already a few things going on like Mars and me drawing for people who do well in ops, hopefully the highlight reel, etc., but we'd like to see more of everypony if they're interested. So, first things first, if you have any ideas you'd like to share, let us know. Second, we may get a forum going, so we can maybe get more back and forth vs. me on a soapbox.

The other thing about interaction and community building is that we're limited to 100 people, and if the stats on Elite are correct, there are people in the clan who have clocked less than ten hours of playtime, and quite a few who haven't played in almost two weeks. Now, there are a few people where we know what's going on and why we haven't heard from them, but I don't think it's unreasonable to expect that people in a MW3 clan play MW3, so we are going to look at the rosters again in two weeks (Saturday, April 21) and start clearing out people who appear to be inactive. That means that if you don't have any evidence of recent play on Elite, or some other way to let us know that you're still around, you have two weeks before you won't be rocking the [Pony] tag for the foreseeable future.

That said, the end goal is to get more ponies wrecking chumps, so the other part of this is that we'll be letting new people into the clan, something that hasn't happened in a while. We're not set on how we want to do this, but some variation of playing with people to make sure we get along is probably what's going to happen; we don't have a KD requirement, or anything, but it's important to us that the people we play with are cool. Given Call of Duty's player base, I think it's sadly necessary to note some minimum standards of conduct, to wit, don't be a horrible racist/sexist/homophobic asshole.

Just... don't make us feel like this.

Anyway, we should have some more news/discussion on these topics, but the basic thing to remember right now is that we'd like to see some signs of life from our clan mates. If you have any questions, please let us know.