Even to this day, April 3rd, 2012 ~ Now, at least, I still don't count the pure community out, even 2 and a half years almost after the "Corruption" we fell through with.
I've made my own push to relapse back into the olden days, but it just didn't work out.
There's still hope though, behind all the countless B.S. **** clans have to offer, whether it be leaking someones leader boards for their own clan hype, or to prove they're intellectual dominance to their members/community/pure community, (lol), I have no other doubt in my mind we can work out of this horrible time period.
I'm tired of people blaming the game, blaming JaGeX, they played a big role in it, but what I have to blame is ourselves.
It was our fault it got this way, One person started ddosing, hacking, his buddy did it, then his buddy did it, and so on, so forth. It was simply us, we let it get this way.
Personally, I'm very to proud to say I've never partook in any sort of Hacking, DDoSing, etc of ANYONE or ANY CLAN in the pure community. Can any other leader say that? I mean come on. Everyone has been there now. It's a solid joke.
I'll always stand by the pure community, although I've fallen victim of care-less hate, I honestly dislike half of the people in this community now days, simply because of their poor actions, and mostly because they take the game to the next level. It's called a game for a reason fellas.
Anyways, tl;dr, the community still has hope. We just need to drive these retarded cocky 10 year old ******* out of the community. Goes back to the whole 30 defence thing, we finally made a stand, and all the sudden it's died down within a month, it lasted 2 weeks honestly, everyones back to the same old. I don't think clan leaders know how much it would help to slap robes on, I think most clans are petrified of the bonuses Adamant give, and don't want to fight clans with it. (I, myself, will openly admit I am one.)
It has hope, it really does. First, everyone needs to get on the right mindset. Once that happens, it'll take off.