How to keep your clubs safe

• Make sure you keep your club closed so that new applicants have to wait to be approved - may take longer but it allows you the chance to screen your new applicants.
• Don't hold competitions offering admin positions - you have no idea who they actually are.
• Don't promote anyone that you have known only a few days/weeks.
• Absolutely don't promote anyone that tries to bribe you - "make me an admin or I will leave" them kinds of people are more likely to sabotage your club. 
• Only accept members that have been on the site for at least 3 months - some clubs have a 6 month rule which is even better but anyone with a brand new account (less than 3 months) is very possibly someone that has been banned for cheating / abuse. 
• Make sure, when you are checking their profiles, that they have played at least 20 rated daily games and have timed out less than 15% - anything more than that and they are likely to time out in daily team matches and that loses you matches. 
• Be careful, if you are playing team matches or vote chess games within your club, that you don't let players from the opposing team join as they may be spies from the other team and you run the risk of them trying to sabotage your teams efforts. 

Any questions? Go ahead and ask away. 

Well done Donna but I have no questions.

I have a Q ???

How come Donna is so wonderful, er um......or is she awesome......or maybe.......

just totally infallable

LOL John  

I am far too busy. I am in 148 clubs - admin in over 120 of them - run 4 of my own leagues and co-run 2-3 others. Think that is enough for now  

What if the account is less than 3 months old but you know for sure that the previous account was self closed in good standing?

And who should I promote to admin?

Good advice indeed

I would still wait the 3 months anyway to prove they aren’t going to close their account again. 

I actually had a person close their account several times after joining team matches and then forfeited the games. Last time he came back I told him he now needs to prove he’s not going to close his account again after doing so several times and refused to let him join my club. He swore that he would prove he’s not going to close his account and then closed it the next day. Since then I trust very few people if they close their accounts. 

Also, why wait 3 months? Whats the problem with a 1 month? Because I think many people would realize their mistakes within a month

Seems arbitrary a 15% time-out ceiling. “Timing out” in Daily chess does on the rare exception happen - circumstances beyond someone’s control in 1/2 day matches. Someone with 15 time-outs in 100 games has most likely abandoned those games. (Timing-out the wrong term). In other words a quitter. A quitter in live games is highly frowned upon. Somehow Daily games gets some sort of free pass. IMO abandoning Daily games is the far greater offense. 
Patterns emerge. A better indicator than a straight % that I think only takes into account the recent past.

A Clubs image is of the most concern - possibly losing a Match due to a player quitting is also very troublesome indeed. 
CC choose a course - one that seems irreversible completely opening the formation of Clubs to all members.