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Clan Owners and Leaders,

I first wanted this to be particularly directed at clan owners, but I would like to include all leaders out of respect to them and their contributions in their respective clans.

Thanks for giving me your attention so far :) I am very curious how long everyone's been leading their clan and what comments they have about their time as a leader (if any). Here's a simple format you can follow and I hope this can be an interesting discussion for everyone:

lbody
Clan Owner, Elite Pixels
1 year, 1 month
Comments ~ I have been the only owner of my clan, Elite Pixels, for over a year now. I find it very rewarding but equally exhausting to be the clan owner of our high-level, mid-sized, PvE-style clan.

We have struggled to maintain willing, active leadership outside of myself ever since the clan was created. Despite that we have flourished with those odds against us and have recently managed to grow inside our leadership ranks. We quickly approach a Tier 7 Citadel that we expect to get on New Years! I have entirely quit Runescape outside of my clan obligations, and it's all I enjoy doing now.
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17-Dec-2014 09:47:52

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Again, thanks for reading this far! So.. enough about me. What's your story and how long have you been leading? What is your perspective? Please don't be intimidated by my long comment, and feel free to skip the comment altogether :)
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17-Dec-2014 09:48:06

J4ron
Oct Member 2013

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Hi everyone I'm J4 and I'm a clanoholic

J4ron
Clan Owner, All But Forgotten
2 years, 7 months
Comment: I have been the only owner of my clan for the 2 years it's been running

We've had our ups and downs, but we've had a large boost over the last few months with a huge influx of new, amazing clan members. We're slowly, but steadily approaching 1000th in the clan hiscores. We're a social clan based in NZ/Aus/USA (only started branding ourselves as that the past few months) I love my clan and everything we've achieved the past 2 years Owner of
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NZ/Aus/USA based social clan.

17-Dec-2014 10:01:09

SofaKing

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Clan owner, The True Empire

My story is, I started playing runescape again in early 2013 then got recruited by my current clan. My clan has a long history going back to 2011 under different names but keeping many of the same members, and it's worth saying each chat was exceptionally eventful and massive back then.

After joining The True Empire I immediately proved to be very active, played a lot of hours, spoke in the chat and hosted many events. I learned my clans rules/system inside and out over time, and wanted to have an avatar out more often, so i campaigned for a leadership role so it could be granted to me.

Instead, the owner sent me off to be a founder in an expansion chat. I built up it's citadel and lead it in a mirror image more or less of the main chat. I was pretty much the only active leader of 2 large chats for many months, and lead both chats mostly on my own. A time came where the owner made a 3rd chat and I was left having to lead that one too, which did not work out too good after a few months.

Eventually, on Jan 31st 2014, the owner retired, and passed on ownership to me in the main chat. I was promoted from Council Leader to a new position called the Emperor. After, this i took over the other chats by calling for a merger.

I very much enjoy my clan and i would definitely not have bought the 3rd weeks membership when i started this account 2 years ago. I would have quit the game hands down if it weren't for the community i now lead, that sucked me in.

17-Dec-2014 10:12:05

Fire Hawk154

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5 years in The Living Legends
Was a great clan once, the best pure F2P clan for quite a while. But when F2P was removed from the hiscores and W141 CW was removed, the clan shrinked. We're still open, but memories of the past will for me always be greater than the future of the clan. With F2P becoming smaller and smaller in terms on players, I doubt we'll ever be as big as we once were. Most of my old friends in this clan have quit RuneScape, and when I think about them I still miss them.

4 months in Clan Europe
Joined 1 year and 3 months ago because I wanted to get back into warring. Some people left, so slowly I stepped up ranks and eventually became leader. The main goal is to bring back life into PvP while also maintaining an amazing community.

5 months in Final Dawn (closed 2 months after EOC)
A couple of years ago, when The Rising (GMT warring clan) closed, alot of the Dutch members got together and made a new warring clan. I progressed through the ranks and eventually became the leader. When EOC came, most of the members and officials lost their interest in the game so the only option was to close.

The hardest part of being a clan leader is to become good friends with people but having to see them go. So many old faces are now gone and I often wonder how they're doing.
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17-Dec-2014 10:20:04

Gluepot
Nov Member 2023

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I'm no longer leading but I have led clans for over 3 years. I didn't really keep track. I've completely lost track of how long I've been playing Runescape, Thought it was about 8/9 years turns out it's more like 11 years. XD

I started in my first clan and quickly worked my way to become one of the co-leaders for about a year. I did the most work and was regarded as the leader. (The Owner never actually played anymore and only did behind the scenes stuff and spoke to the leaders to find out how it was going). This blew up in a spectacular way which I will remember forever and still bear the scars.

After it blew up there was two new clans which emerged. I led one of these for about 8 months before activity dropped. However I'm happy that during that time I managed to repair the friendships with the other clan.

I took a break from leading and joined a random clan for several months, before that kept splitting and breaking up. Then a fellow CLF member decided to form a new clan and wanted other CLF'ers to lead it. I helped lead this for about a year and a half. Eventually this closed as there was no unity between us leaders as we had also been chosen for our ability to cover the timezones (one British, one American and one Australian).

Since then I've been a regular clannie in a few clans. I have the skills to lead a clan, but I've never been fond of the idea of the initial recruiting to start up the clan. So maybe in the future I would return. I put far less time into the game because I'm not leading. This is both good and bad. I feel I should contribute more to the clans I'm in, but I used to play an unhealthy amount of time. I'm very happy as a regular member in Tiber/Oblivions clan now.
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17-Dec-2014 12:32:23

Gluepot
Nov Member 2023

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Since this what's our story. I thought I'd also talk a bit more about the blowing up of the first clan.

We had 6 co-leaders all working together while the owner himself was too busy to lead so he appointed us. I did by far the most work, running offsites, event timetabling, logging rule breaks, promotions and demotions. Entering us into competitions, The clan was at it's peak and had 300+ members who were all very close and knew each other. Eventually the Owner decided asked if I wanted to become sole leader. I declined but despite this a fellow co-owner took offense that trust wasn't put in her so much so for she staged a coup. Planning for months. This eventually blew up, and even though I wasn't to blame. I drew the brunt for being the owners "teachers pet" Over 48 hours, hundreds and hundreds of harsh offensive forum posts were directed at me and the owner (me for stepping in to defend him). I got probably about 2 hours sleep over those 2 days. And in the end the clan just closed. I was in quite a bad place for weeks after that.

If anyone hadn't been there the past 3 days, they had no idea what had happened. They came back to find the clan's existence completely wiped. I had a few, but not many message me weeks later asking what happened. Even years later people asked what happened to their clan. I have no idea what happened to many of my friends who just weren't there those 3 days.

Years after I've been trying to regather people. Not to form a clan, but just to be friends. I created a facebook group for the old clan just for people to reminisce. Many have quit the game now but we still speak on Facebook. The group has 50 members. I wonder what happened to the other 250.

Fire Hawk154 said :

The hardest part of being a clan leader is to become good friends with people but having to see them go. So many old faces are now gone and I often wonder how they're doing.
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The Imperial Legion

17-Dec-2014 12:48:00 - Last edited on 17-Dec-2014 12:48:46 by Gluepot

Blasty
Feb Member 2017

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My clan had been facing years of decline in activity until I made many changes starting 2 months ago to systems including recruitment and ranking, and continue to try making it a clan many people enjoying being a part of. I've had an ownership position for many months but my attempts to work on infrastructure had minimal effect on the clan's growth. It wasn't until 2 months ago that I realized how much of an impact effective recruitment has on clan growth.

The clan has definitely changed from what it was like when I had a smiley rank back in the friend chat days, but I almost all of the long term members have accepted that and are appreciative of the effort I've put into giving new life to the clan.

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17-Dec-2014 13:42:29 - Last edited on 17-Dec-2014 13:43:03 by Blasty

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