Poor Clan Vetting Exposed in Server Experiment
Summary
MOON - Openfront.io posts an announcement exposing weak vetting after an experiment showed a newly created clan was accepted with minimal checks. The message highlights how easy petition signups were obtained and calls attention to the risks of prioritizing quantity over quality. It urges better background checks and stronger community standards to protect trust.
How this is poorly managed
We, Takeser and 1Bunnycuddles, ran an experiment: to see how easy it was to get a clan to join the petition, so we made a clan.
We made a server on one of Takeser's alts, adding some of our alts to it to make sure it had more than 1 person in the server. mind you it had around 3 people before we tried to get the alt in. We then proceeded to have the alt to join the server. They didn’t even ask about the clan or any evidence about its existence and within maybe five minutes we had gotten in, eager to get who ever they could to sign on to make it as impressive as they could (in their eyes meaning as many names as possible) without any care for the quality of names which they had.
While the idea of any player being capable of creating a community is certainly important, it should also be considered that the lack of any background checks in their search for people indicates that they fail to hold themselves to recognize that there is in fact a difference between potential and acting upon that potential to get to the point where their community is important enough to hold sway over the community and dev team.
