I agree with Hyung Soong. Lots of the posts here sound like something from a conspiracy theorist network...
Honestly, the proposals will be accepted or rejected eventually. The thing is, a few of the factions being proposed have given up and turned to this ridiculous notion of an "inner circle" ruling everything.
If your proposed faction isn't active in game, it won't be accepted.
About unofficial factions, they should be placed in the flood forum. Faction Feedback, Recruitment etc seems to be for official factions only.
The way I see it, official factions have the bonus of publicised recruitment (on the forums), the ability to own systems and mod them, access to a Message Dump and more.
Unofficial factions don't seem to have the right to recruit on the forums (justly so, they haven't gone through the effort to become official). Most of them don't seem interested in owning systems, so that part doesn't really count. Message dumps can be made in the roleplaying hub, so that advantage isn't really too important.
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