While reddit has been a source of our recruitment, I think we have mostly been self sufficient in terms of a community. We haven't really been using /r/redditdoobs that much, and we don't require players to actually be active redditors. Maybe I should instead create a logo that identifies us independently rather than one that connects us to reddit.

What do you think? Should we be dotanoobs or redditdoobs?

I think that reddit most def has been the source for a large majority of our sucess but I don't think that switching the logo to a bit more community neutral is a terrible idea.

I agree with everything both of you said lol.

While I don't think we need to -define- our community by Reddit, I think /r/Dota2 is going to easily be our most common source for new members as we continue to post and try and upvote things to the front-page there. I think we should always keep the subreddit around and maybe always keep the Reddit link in our footer or something similar.

About the logo: I really agree that we should have something independent and not Reddit related, however I really fucking dig the current logo I think it looks great with the board. I'd say go ahead and work on something new at your leisure Love, we can always pop it on the front page first and then the board.

I'll whip up a little "reddit" theme for the board that is all white and kinda looks like reddit and this current banner can be for that theme!

The logo is boss as fuck.

That said, I'm personally ambivalent on this. I don't think however, that "rebranding" our name would hurt us at all. I think it might help to define what this community really is: A place for people to grow and improve in their Dota 2 skills. Maybe not just a place for redditors and maybe not just a place for noobs.

Personally something like: Dota 2 noob school kinda has a ring to it.

Just throwing an idea out there.

That could similarly give a wrong impression to new visitors. We aren't really a school per-se, it's not like we are pro players handing down our years of experience to the n00b masses. While we're all here as low-skill players looking to improve in this game together, the main point is still to get some friendly (and soon hopefully semi-competitive) games going to have FUN and get better.

I have heard the "mentoring" idea thrown around, and we could totally do something where the top few teams/players in the league do reviews of peoples replays or something. We could have a whole subset of the site for that... school.dotanoobs.com "Welcome to DotaNoobs University".

Or instead of a whole separate site - you could just create a new forum category.

But yeah - I think you pinpointed exactly what I was trying to get at. If we're looking at any sort of tweaking to our name or logo, it should give the correct impression of what sort of community this is.