Clash of Clans Open Recruitment Thread!

Open Recruitment Thread!
[Mod] State of the Subreddit: March 2021
[MISC] Sorry Supercell, but I think this is the worst skin yet
[MISC] get yall's priorities straight
[MISC] It took five years to decorate my village.
[MISC] I always think the gold pass skins can’t get any worse but Supercell proves me wrong every month
[Humor] they just leave immediately
[MISC] Rouge champion skin hinted for April Month (source-Rogue king skin video)
Game Glitched To a WAR Builder base Scenery [Glitch]
[HUMOR] this isn’t humor jackasses
[GOAL] I finally got the last trees I needed to complete my circle of trees on the outside of my base!
[MISC] Finally, Both villages maxed out
[GOAL] TH6 Champs. yaay Slowly climbing the ladder. 4 days in from M1
[GOAL] After a resurgence in our clan, we were able to start twice a week wars again to see how long of a streak we could get. Went 13 wins in a row, and overall went 18-1 over the last three months. Hoping to get to 20-1 after leagues and maybe even 20 in a row, but I am a proud leader. GO HAWKS
Why are the gold pass rewards so good this season? (not complaining!) [ask]
[GOAL] finally finished town hall 11 walls!
[LEAGUE] Its taken 3 weeks to get from crystal 3 to nearly titan 1 as a th9. Still trying to reach legends.
[MISC]Who else plays the decorating game?
[GOAL] All that is left is lab, traps, and defense
[GOAL] Hard Work Pays off!! Maxed queen to level 30 as a TH9.
[HUMOR] guys, I think I've found my spirit troop.
[NEWS] Green Trees!!!
[HUMOR] I present to you, The Flamethrower!
[GOAL] TH5 Push back in Titans 1
[GOAL] Finally maxed builder hall 9!
I'm upgrading to TH11! I'm super excited. My heroes are 35/30 and most of the lab is maxed. [GOAL]
[Goal] all maxed and overflowing resources. I won't be getting the March season pass.

Posted: 28 Feb 2021 08:00 AM PST

Hello Reddit Clashers! It's time for an Open Recruitment Thread. All clans, RCS or not are welcome to recruit within this post. This is the only place recruiting is allowed on this subreddit. Just a reminder though, you are welcome to recruit at any time at r/ClashofClansRecruit (max one post per clan per week). You can also view all Verified Reddit Clans on this page. Additional tips on recruiting can be found here. There's also a recruiting channel in our partnered discord!

Format should be as follows:

Clan Name: __________
Clan Tag:
Clan Level:
Clan Entry Reqs: (TH9/ArchersLvl/etc)
Additional info:

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[Mod] State of the Subreddit: March 2021

Posted: 01 Mar 2021 08:37 AM PST

It's been too long since we done this, so for a refresher, here's how we'd like this to go - We will throw out some topics for discussion, give our perspective from behind the scenes, and then we can all chat. Please feel free to give any feedback you have on those topics, or anything else you feel we should be discussing. Whether you love or hate something about the sub, we want to hear your opinions. That said, we'll begin with the following topics :

Subreddit Traffic and Activity -
Early Thoughts on the Implementation of Humor Weekends -
Incentivizing and Rewarding Quality Posts -
Rule 6, [Tagging] as a requirement for post titles.
Anything else - Let us know what topics YOU want discussed.

Subreddit Traffic and Activity

The subreddit is still growing at a tremendous rate. For some perspective we hit 100k in June 2017, the next 100k took over 2 years, and we crossed the 200k mark October 2019 and most recently 300k back in November 2020. None of us would be surprised if we cross 400k by the end of 2021, especially with the release of TH14 expected this year. Subscribers aren't the whole story though.

This is our traffic for the last year. You'll note the fairly steady decline over the last 12 months, with the exception of July and December, AKA update months. The ebb and flow of activity that comes with game updates is fairly expected. We peaked back around the time of TH13 release as as we get further and further from that point in time, we expect continued decline with upticks around the quarterly updates. 2020 was just a goofy year for a LOT of reasons obviously. 2021 we are expecting a continued increase in overall subscribers and we should hit new high levels of activity with TH14 coming this year, we are optimistic about the growth of the subreddit. That is how the mod team is viewing it for the most part, but if anyone has other insights or explanations we may be overlooking, we'd love to discuss those.

Humor Weekends

Probably our most controversial decision in years was to limit the posting of memes and other humor posts to the weekends. It is still pretty early to make judgements, but overall the mod team is happy with the implementation. Outside of the occasional upset user in the comments or angry mod mail, most people who comment in the sub seem to be in favor of the rule change. When we originally began discussing this iteration of the proposed rule change back in November/December, we knew we would have to give it time to really sink in and for the sub to adapt from being mostly a meme sub to something more balanced. 6 months was the proposed timeline for reassessing the humor weekend rule, so that is still ~4 months away. However, we're always open to feedback and ideally the humor discussion should be an ongoing one. So we would like to hear everyone's early impressions of how that rule has impacted the subreddit, good or bad. There has already been a few user started discussions (examples here and this poll here) on the topic, but now is a good time to get a wider perspective on a pinned thread. Something I'd like to personally note on that poll is the huge discrepancy between the way the vote went and the way the comments lean. Clearly there seems to be a distinction between users who actively participate by commenting in the subreddit, and those who merely lurk and vote.

For years humor dominated the front page, often 20+ posts of the front page were [humor] tagged. If we compare that to the current distribution of post tags now we can already see a pretty stark difference.

Humor posts are still the most popular content, but they no longer seem to dominate the front page even during humor weekends. Outside of the front page, [Ask] is still the most common both during and outside of humor weekends. Spend some time browsing the /new section to get a feel for what most of those posts are like but it is a lot of basic gameplay stuff and personal advice. On that note please don't hesitate to steer people towards reading the Recently Updated FAQ which contains answers to a huge chunk of those posts already.

Incentivizing and Rewarding Quality Posts

Restricting humor is only a half measure towards improving the overall quality of posts in the sub, and this topic and the next we hope are the other half of that conversation. One of the strongest arguments for limiting humor was that it would allow other types of content to get the spotlight. It would have been naïve to think that overnight the sub would be once again filled with attack guides and strategic discussions. The last thing we wanted to do was simply replace one kind of low effort content (memes) with other, less popular content. So to that end, what we are going to start doing is recognizing high quality posts and/or comments each month with subreddit awards (platinum and gold), and highlighting them in a pinned post. Right now we are planning on awarding the top humor post (non-repost, decided by upvotes) and the top helpful post or comments (nominated and voted on by users). What we are hoping to do is give people reasons to write guides and give advice, and reward those users who are willing to help others. We'll post the specifics on this soon, but since this is a community oriented initiative, we want community feedback on how it should be implemented.

Also on this topic, we are constantly looking for posts worthy of pinning to the front page. If you see a valuable discussion happening, or a quality guide that isn't getting the attention you think it deserves, let a mod know and we are more than happy to shine a spotlight on it.

Rule 6, [Tagging] as a requirement for post titles.

Post tags, typed out in brackets, has been a requirement of this sub for years. Reddit was a different beast back then though, and there are new ways to filter content both from our end as a subreddit and your end as a user.

We took a look at one full day's worth (random enough sample for discussion) of automod tagging removals and found the following:

101 users had a total of 123 posts removed automatically for being untagged.
Of those 123 posts removed, 53 were eventually resubmitted successfully (half the affected users roughly). 40 of those chose the appropriate tag.
29 of those 123 broke another subreddit rule anyway, 12 of the 53 resubmitted were manually removed later for rule breaking (mostly mistagged humor and recruiting posts)
In that same 24 hour period, 90 total posts were made to the sub. So about half the posts in /new for the day were tripped up by the need for a proper tag.
Of the ones not resubmitted, about 3 were anything worthwhile (subjective opinion of course). The rest were mostly things like [ask] for some kind of personal advice, which isn't surprising if anyone read the charts above in the humor section.

For some context and so we're all on the same page, Here are some of the pros and cons we see in the requirement as it currently exists.

Pro : It's hoped that by requiring tags, we are indirectly requiring people to read the subreddit rules.
Pro: It reduces spam posts, whether it be from bots or users with poor reading comprehension; it forces people to pause and read and comprehend enough to post. This automatically excludes most bots and many low quality posts as well.
Pro: Flair can be required through the subreddit settings but that functionality isn't available through all platforms/apps, it would need to be enforced through a bot. Automod can automatically assign flair based on text tags in the title though, which allows the filters to work better by ensuring every single post is flaired. Does anyone regularly use the flair filtering we have set up?
Pro: Requiring tags in the title is the easiest way for us to enforce humor weekends since we aren't aware of any ways to limit flair type by day, but we can use automod commands to catch everything that says "[humor]."
Con: Selecting a flair is intuitive and built into reddit, bracket tagging is not. Many users confuse selecting a flair with typing out a tag, it's easily our most common question in mod mail.
Con: Without tags the sub would see ~ 1.5x more posts per day based on the untagged posts that were not resubmitted. (Likely most of this increased activity would be personal advice, [ask] and [misc] similar to the distribution noted in the humor section above).
Con: It's a barrier to posting that roughly half our potential submitters did not overcome for whatever reason during the examined period.
Con: Post titles are not editable, only flairs are. Currently rule 6 is pretty laxly enforced outside of a few tags (News for example). A changed flair fixes how the post will be filtered but the title is still incorrect and often the user must resubmit.

The number of subreddits that use our old school tagging system is dwindling. So any thoughts on changes are welcome. The most viable alternative is probably using u/assistantbot to enforce flair usage with a message and a short grace period for the user to select a flair or have the post removed until that is done.

Finally, there are currently 22 allowable tags. Are there new tags that should be added, tags that should be removed or combined? Do you feel most posters choose an appropriate tag?

That is it Thanks for hanging in there, it was long and covered a lot things but hopefully it generates some good discussion. Of course any and all feedback is welcome, but constructive criticism is preferred. If there is anything else you'd like addressed or even if you just have questions about us mods, now is the perfect time to get it out in the open, Ask us Anything.

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[MISC] Sorry Supercell, but I think this is the worst skin yet

Posted: 01 Mar 2021 01:29 AM PST