Clan:The Divide



"Respect is earned. Loyalty is proven"

Skill Firm
This is a World 23 clan (F2P W105), founded on the 22nd October 2009. The clan was founded by dan_robson1; the clan chat is "Skill Firm", and the account in position of Leader is also owned by dan_robson1. The clan started with a small group of friends but has grown rapidly over the months since then. The current number of members registered on our external forums (www.skillfirm.tk) is 336 (as of 20th October 2010.) We regularly have new members hopping into the CC and therefore we are constantly growing.

This clan is a level 3-138 Community Clan. We host events like God Wars (Bandos more often than not) and the King Black Dragon. See the events section for more details. There is an optional "clan uniform" which consists of a cream hat and boots which some of our members choose to wear while skilling.

The clan website is www.skillfirm.tk

The Ranks are Clan Member > Veteran Member > Moderator >Clan Council > High Council & Leader.

Moderators+ can kick players from the CC if they are judged as being unruly.

This is judged by our rules, see the paragraph below for more details.

The Rules
1. No racist or homophobic language (or anything which relates to this).

-We feel this rule is paramount as we have a wide range of culture and ethnicity.

2. No spamming in the chat (3 lines same/similiar text.) This is simply what we have decided to consider as spam.

Examples:
 * The classic "@@@" repeated 3 times would be an instant kick.
 * Repeating the word "lol" 3 times on separate lines within a small period of time.

3. Please do not advertise our clan in any other CCs. You may be kicked if we deem it necessary.

4. Please don't ask for a clan rank. You must simply apply on the forums.

5. Do not ask for kicks.

6. Please refrain from using offensive language or avoiding the censor.

7. Try not to deliberately disrespect other clan mates (it can lead to arguments and the like).

8. Do your best not to disturb the peace, E.G. Arguing over pointless stuff.

Basically, all Jagex rules apply in the clan chat (as well as a few of our own as you have read above).

Forum Rules:
1. No advertising any other RuneScape clan forums. This will result in an instant ban.

2. No Racism or Homophobic Language [See Rule 1]

3. No posting pornographic or offensive related material.

Event Rules:
[All the above rules also apply to events]


 * When the event leader is speaking, please listen. If you talk, it becomes very unhelpful and annoying and may result in a warning.


 * There are no requirements to come to our events (unless they are necessary due to the game, E.G. 70 Strength for the GWD.) However, a combat level higher than 100 is highy recommended for combat orientated events.

Note:
Before being kicked, you will receive 2 warnings in most cases, if you then proceed to commit another offence you will be temporarily banned from the CC for 1 hour. Exceptions to this are if you are on the 'trouble members' list, you will be kicked upon receiving your second warning, or in the case of spam and advertising, if you are unranked, you will be kicked instantly. Feel free to join back again after.

The Dan Era
Dan also know as Validus, Dan robson1, Dan Got Shot, Light Bliss, Sf Dan x, Validus SF, Towny, founded Skill firm on the 21st of October 2009. Prior to Skill Firm Dan was a Full Member in Skill Union, a friendly clan. After being kicked for saying 'I do not like rock music' and his disagreements about Herssa's role in Skill Union, Dan handed in his leaving form after organising a mass leave/quit from Skill Union with other members e.g. Dass, Between Time, Mr Wow, Vermilicide, Craved, 1mmortal 1ty (Just a few of the members, 15 or so members quit that day with the thread title 'Leaving' and reason 'Herssa Fails').

Dan got all the 15 to join 'Dan robson1' cc where they named the CC to 'Herssa Fails', he then organised the creation of a level 3 account. The Suggestions were the following, Skill Unite, Skill Divide and Skill Firm. Dan and Dass decided on Skill Firm. The next thing that needed to be done was decide on Ranks, Dan picked Dass as a leader (also known as john) and Mr wow, Mr mattoid as council. The rest all started from scratch/given 3 bar + ranks to control SU (Skill Union) haters.

On the 22nd Dan made the first clan forums z15.invisionfree.com/. This website was later deleted and moved to Zetaboards as it has more features. From then on Dan spent his time recruiting tonnes of members whilst playing runescape, he made videos, stood in the GE/PC and recruited friends, old SU members and random people.

Knowing that because of the size SU used to be there would be many haters, the BOS/KOS list was created for this purpose (ban on sight / kick on sight). This meant that the ignore list didn't become full up, only the most extreme people were put on the ignore list.

A year has passed and Skill Firm is still here. Starting with only 15 members Dan raised the clan to 340+ members, but Dan grew increasingly busy in real life with his new job and girlfriend and decided to hand over the clan to Nuf and Rory. He promised to return in the future, and also to remake Skill Firm or Skill Firm under a new name if the clan disappeared.

-Written by Dan - 21st of October 2009 - 22nd of October 2010

The dawn of a new era...
A year after the creation of skill firm... Dan had chosen the clan's heir, left a thread containing a final farewell to the clan, and all but left entirely. We knew not whether he would log on for the skill firm birthday party the following day, but there were doubts. Our new leader, Nuf, had renamed the cc "A New Era", and with a feeling of sorrow of Dan's departure we were reminiscing about the events of the past year. We had a whole era behind us and a new era ahead of us.

Here is a screenshot of the first conversation in the "A New Era" cc.



Videos
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Youtube Channel
Skill Firm has 2 Youtube channels:

SkillFirmD

SkillFirmVids

You can access them by clicking the links above.

Feel free to make a video promoting Skill Firm (Any videos created about Skill Firm will be added to the official Skill Firm playlist on the "SkillFirmVids" Channel)

Upcoming events

 * 21st-22nd october skill firm birthday.

See this link for more details.

We usually have an event every week.

For information on more events, please ask the event manager, Amalvyr, to tell you what this week's event will be.

Skill firm competition (xc)
Hey guys we hold a xc competition every week.

The aim is to gain the most xp in the time period given in the skill chosen by the previous weeks winner.

How to enter
1. Ok you need to be ranked on high scores to take part in competition so we have proof of your starting xp.

2. If you have not already registered on our clan forums, they can be found at: www.skillfirm.tk

3. Once you are registered, scroll down to the community section and click on xc competition.

4. Then just post your name and leave the mods to do the rest!

Winners
Congratulations to all winners!

* Note:Name might have been changed.

This weeks comp is Hunter but it has already started, you will be able to join our next one. (20/10/2010)

Reward

 * Winner chooses next skill.
 * Winner gets custom sotw signature.

Sotw rules can be found here.

List of winners can be found here.

How to get a Member rank
Members need to register on http://s1.zetaboards.com/SkillFirm/index in the "Member Applications" section in order to achieve a rank in the in-game CC.

The criteria are as follows:


 * 10 forums posts (to show you have a basic knowledge of our external forums). Please do not spam to achieve these 10 posts, if your posts are judged to be spam, you will be warned and all spam posts will be removed.


 * 2 weeks in-game activity.

When posting your application, copy the template from "How to apply" and fill it in appropriately.

When accepted it can take up to 2 days for your in-game rank to change, to keep your rank you need to avoid breaking clan rules and keep active.

Runehead Member List
See runeheadfor more details.

Rank Descriptions
This is a table of the clan ranks along with their symbols.

List of members and their ranks
Note that 2 and 3 bar symbols may appear as 1 and 2 bar symbols on this background, they are correct however, they simply appear wrong due to the background here being paler than the one on the RS clan chat interface.

Founder:

Validus

Leaders:

Skaterboy

Nuffyson

High council:

Dirty Truth

Roborat

Amalvyr

Clan council:

1mmortal 1ty

beats by me

Genka

Run n Alch

Binarypigeon

Moderators:

Atomic SF

Xx Rosie

ringbearer90

Veteran members:

iTz Carn

Naimba

SeasonEmote

Lord Noob SF

Rawr Rated

Noobidus

Members:

0_0 SEMI

121pwnage

allanmc

Arch Oracion

bishyp07

blobman265

bloodvamp111

CheeseNibz

cloud gtr

dextermorqan

Eat My Cluck

epic dock98

Full Skila

Grizlystrait

iTz Kawasaki

IVIr Elmo

Jatziko

Jaxai

JTIysteriouz

katy

mangoooooo

Necro Skillz

OpticalSam

Otachi

phillyx_0_x

PRAYz ELITEz

Qgi

S F J A Y

Sc1mz

SF Agrona

SF Pro-Fail

SF Tria

SF xLUKEx

shirty boy15

SnipedownMLG

t-bagger699

Tasty Future

TearsOfFrost

the cool q

Tismetrue

Toksarams

u0y t0g st1t

ysoserious46


 * Names may not be up to date