Yikes, Halo53, those were huge! Maybe if you'd left out the parts where you just agreed with what was said earlier it would've been better. Still, nice to hear your thoughts. Your many . . . many thoughts. And your endless chapter promoting. ;) j/k I don't have the time to go reply to every single post like good ol' 53 could, but I'm in agreement with much of what was said. 7 members would be perfect. They should get their own private chapter. And of course they should have Bungie as their direct overseers. As for the purpose of the 7th Council (I prefer 7th Council to 7th Column Council--it may be less desriptive, but I think it sounds better), I think it should focus more on organizing the community with real life events, and less on site maintenence. While I agree that the chapter spotlight and 7th Column news are important, the best way to help unify the community is to arrange for them to interact more outside the bounds of the forums and chapters. After all, the majority of Halo fans rarely if ever even visit here to socialize. They're more interested in when they can have their next LAN or what the best times are to play online (via XBC or with HPC over the Internet). I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that, just that they enjoy Halo in a different way. So, like I think it was Stosh who said so, I think that regular XBL or physical (like congregating at an actual location) events would be the focus of the 7C's organization. That way, those fans who rarely use the Internet will be able to simply check out the 7C's front page to find out the info on the next event. Organized chapter battles would also be a good idea, provided the Council can keep things from becoming too aggressive. The last thing we need is for members of different chapters to throw around flames and other insults here on the site. Once the battles are over, they should be able to go back to normal, friendly conversation. As for the needed moderation of the online aspect of the community, I think this can be handled properly while real life events are being focused on. Forum moderators do not necessarily need to be members of the Council. Also, as an added suggestion for picking members of the Council, availability of the members needs to be considered almost as much so as their other qualifications. It would be best if at least one of the members would be online at any given moment during the week so that they could be contacted. Obviously, some times there'll be more online than other times, but we should always be able to contact at least one, regardless of his/her particular responsibilities. Perhaps a member could be chosen from a timezone besides the ones in the U.S. who would be able to be online at what we're used to being 4 in the morning. And of course the quantity of time a person can dedicate to this is important as well. For example, it may be that I'd be good enough to handle some of the responsibilities of being on the Council (I don't expect you to agree--no one here really knows me or my abilities), but there's no way I'd have to time to dedicate to the project. I'm sure many others are the same way: perhaps qualified ability-wise, but only able to spend an hour or two every couple of days at Bungie.net. This idea has a lot of potential, but we still have much to finalize before we go ahead with it. Just my thoughts, [b]Poocho[/b] :)