One of main rewards is rendered useless
One of the only things we can do as leaders is try to control elder status, and there are fundamental flaws with that. Since there is only one flat level for elder status, you either have it or don't, and there are no configurable options for it. I don't think any 'elder' should be able to grant any member elder status. That doesn't make sense. That would be like your manager promoting you to manager along with him. That's not how any organization in the world works.
I'll be honest, because of this above, I tend to keep all of my clanmates with elder status. The reason for this is because new members will come in, and since anyone in the clan who is elder can promote them, when they ask for elder someone tends to do it without thinking first, and I can't tell you how many times that new elder has turned around and kicked out all non elders in the entire clan. Since I can't stop people from promoting others to elder, I keep everyone at elder to prevent these trouble makers from destroying my clan.
A new feature around this would be great. Maybe 2 tiers to elder? Tier 1 elder can invite members in and kick members out, but no promotions. Tier 2 can promote members to Tier 1 elder, demote Tier 1 elders, or kick out members. Only Leader can promote all, kick out all, etc. and because this is fairly limiting if the leader doesn't sign on ALL of the time, maybe because they have a day job or some other non-CoC responsibilities, create an official co-leader type role with options as to what that person can do.
If you did this it would be an amazing difference in being leader of a clan.
And last thing: thank you for implementing a clan message function. Now that we have that, can we either open up the number of characters allowed in it, or at the least, allow for more frequent messaging? And why not allow for individual clanmate messages? As leader, I want to be able to lay down the law, but I don't always want to call someone out in front of the entire clan, and at present time, that is my only option.