I would be tempted to say the thing to do is to start a new thread for Richard fans with no club membership required, except for the fact that the mods don't like having two similar threads.
My concern about this thread is that the title calls it a "Club", the sub-title says: "new, impruved, and
i have premision to restart it!" (original spelling) and then the first post says: "
if you wish to join, first ask me or iloverichard and
if we okay it, post this on your sig." If you put that all together, I couldn't blame someone for thinking they weren't allowed to post in this thread without permission from blazing swords or iloverichard. Those of us who have been around for a while know better, but I'm not sure about the newbies.
That bit about blazing swords having permission to restart the thread is misleading, I think. The old fan club thread was
shut down only because they weren't talking about Richard. Anyone could have started up another Richard fan thread anytime they wanted, as far as I know. No special permission should have been required. But if it is misleading, then why didn't the mods do something about it? If I'm wrong, please correct me.
If blazing swords took the time to create artwork (the banner), I think he has the right to have people ask before they use it, but that's as far as it goes, I think.
I actually as just confronted with that problem. I saw the "Club" moniker and immediately skimmed past it, and when I couldn't find anything remotely similar, I created my own forum to discuss Richard, not just as a fan, but as a character and his development as the comic plot progresses. I come back today (2 days after creating the forum) to find that I have garnered a total of 17 replies and promptly been closed down with a direct link to this forum. I was MOST displeased.