LynxGB said:
My point is ur either a clan or a community not both!
My point was exactly opposite that, I believe.
Our community
is open to new people and continually brings in new faces. It is a rare community that can actually claim to be "free", in any sense -- this place has rules that are defined by the Admin and Mod Teams and requires that all its members abide by those rules or leave, for example. That aside, where our
community is open, not all of our
activities are entirely open.
Sometimes that's self-evident. Only eight people can play Starcraft at once, IIRC. Civilization games need to be played over a few sessions and, as such, place a requirement on the participants to stay involved over those sessions.
Other times, it's enforced. Alien Swarm games set on "Elite" really only support six, and then have no room for those who are not serious veterans. Battlefield 2 clan matches for Enemy Down, where the clan wishes to shoot for the top position, require the best players we have.
I do not feel there is any requirement to define ourselves down just one route. I believe that we can continue to contain one or more clans, though likely not in the same game-space, and our community as well. After all, Battlefield 2 is just one of the games we partake in, and the Enemy Down ladder is just one of the activities going on amongst our Battlefield 2 players, albeit an important one to that group.
Play Starcraft, Guild Wars, Civilization 4, World of Warcraft...? THN has people doing all of those things, and more, in parallel to anything that might be going on in Battlefield 2, and all these things are open to our community to come and get involved. This is not in conflict with any Battlefield 2 activities that are also underway. This tells me that we do not need to make such a choice as "be a community or be a clan", even if the history of THN did not (and it does, for the record).