I would love more ranks in clans, but I don't think that is going to happen. What I think could happen is the possibility of customizing each elder's abilities i.e. promoting, kicking, and inviting. For more trusted elders you can leave all three on. For new elders you have just promoted and are testing his/her ability, you can leave promoting and inviting, but take off kicking.
I would also like to discuss a new ability for elders that could replace kicking; suspending. Suspension could solve the problem of elders kicking entire clans and destroying them. The leader could set the range for the length of suspensions elders can hand out. The suspensions could affect receiving donations from other clan mates, talking on the chat, or from the entire clan itself. There could be a counter by the player's name in the clan member list, where it would show how many suspensions a player had. Then there could be a limit of how many suspensions a player could receive before being kicked. Of course the leader could cancel any suspension.
Thank you for reading all of this. Please leave any feedback you have.

