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6/24/2014 11:50:22 PM
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Let's Talk: #Clans

It's like a Let's Play, but with talking! So a few hours ago the webteam added #clans as an official hashtag/forum. A year ago, people would post things in #destiny and #community and #flood and wherever to find games. This led to a pretty big distribution of clans/groups making it impossible to see them all at once. Lots of people chimed into Deej about it and basically agreed #community was the place to go. But as soon as Bungie gave us what we wanted, #community turned into a clan forum and it was very hard/ impossible to find legitimate discussion like we had on Bnet.old. Almost immediately everybody that asked for it to be in #community, myself included, realized we made a mistake and needed a separate forum for this kind of thing. Deej soon agreed and said it's something for the future. So now we have what we asked for. So what do you all think about it? I for one am glad we have it, but there's something more. See, on Bnet of Old we had the Classifieds, which were the exact same thing as #clans. But they didn't work. They were often 'dead' people said, despite getting lots of threads every day. But the issue was that people didn't go there to find clans. I have a theory. I think that a lot of kids simply... and this will sound silly but so be it... I think a lot of them just didn't know what the word 'classifieds' meant. How it was referring to the section of a newspaper. Because let's be honest- younger people rarely read newspapers these days. And job searches have gone elsewhere. So I think- hope- that simply by naming the tag with the descriptive word 'clans' that we may be able to avoid the issue of people not knowing where recruitment goes. I hope this will mean the tag is widely used- especially with group support coming soon. So yeah. Thoughts?

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  • I think clans will play a bigger role in Destiny than in Halo because its a much more social game, so in that respect i think it'll be much busier (plus 4 consoles). I think your probably right about the benefit of changing the name from classifieds to clans since word association can have a big affect on our pathetic human brains.

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  • I think there should be a forum titled #Butthurt or #Whinybitches. That would clear the rest of the crap out of #Destiny, #Bungie, and #Community. Give everyone a place to whine and complain about the PS4 exclusives and Marty getting fired without clogging up the rest of the forums.

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    • What's a "Newspaper"?

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    • I'm excited over the implementation of #Clans. In the time following the placement of recruitment threads in #Community, the majority of threads with discussion value were drowned out; there were simply too many recruitment threads around to allow any sizeable portion of discussion-worthy threads to surface. This new tag, coupled with the constant influx of new members and Destiny on the way means that the #Clans tag should see regular and rigorous use for years to come.

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    • I'm interested to see just how useful this #Clans forum will be come beta/ release. The main thing with the classifieds is that groups weren't necessary, and there was never a guarantee of finding one where you fit. If clans play a big role in destiny then I can see the forum getting a lot of traffic, and considering that it is there solely to find people to share destiny with, I can see it being successful. I can't see the #clans forum spawning the next all time 'most popular' group, but I think it will serve it's purpose. I'm glad #community is back to it's former glory too!

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    • People will understand Clans far more than they would Classifieds.

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    • Good insight. It's fun to be clever when you're naming things. It's better to be clever about setting obvious expectations.

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    • I'm glad they did it so I won't have to see all of these destiny posts like "join my clan, what class are you going to be" hopefully the community thread won't see much of that because it annoyed me a little.

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    • Agreed. But what happens when a new concept and tag becomes popular but has no place in the current "main" hashtags. Should we again flood an unrelated forum with these threads, while we wait for Bungie to update the site? Before it was a main tag, putting #Clan on something was next to meaningless. And this continues to be the case for anything but the predefined hashtags. I'd much prefer a system where there are no main tags which silo the forum. Just as we've done away with sticky threads, and allowed each thread to live and die of its own merit, so too should each hashtag have equal chance and equal responsibility. Rather than having a static page of forums: Destiny, Bungie, Community, etc... Have a dynamic page that lists all the tags (paged of course) ordered by their popularity. The nav bar at the top of the forum in the web app could display the top 5 or 6, however many fit... Or, that could even be a user customizable list of favorited tags. In any case, the main tags should actually reflect the conversations being had in this community, not corral them.

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    • Edited by jasonisdaspartan: 6/25/2014 4:41:13 AM
      I was a kid and I knew what the classifieds were for, I just didn't go there cuz I almost always had people to play with. Halo 2 did a pretty wonderful job of that. But I feel like it was definitely needed, hopefully clans have a little bit bigger role in the world of destiny.

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    • I think it's a much needed addition that is, unfortunately, being temporarily abused. Soon enough the trolls with clear out and everything will be good.

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    • I think it is pretty neat to have the #clans and I think it will be a good way to find clans for those in search of them.

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    • haha, This totally goes in #community.

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      • So what will be the sole purpose of #Community now? #Clans is obviously for recruiting into clans/groups.

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        • Good idea. I don't see how there can be a decent argument which opposes this change. :-)

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        • Edited by Rothnihalias: 6/27/2014 3:10:32 AM
          You're pretty much right, BurritoMan. The amount of spam in #Community and the newbies it attracted got frustrating to wade through fast. As for the Classifieds, don't forget you needed to have a linked XBL account to post there.

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