I find it hilarious how there is so much anger in this thread every month.
Its a monthly thing, you know its coming. If you don't want to suffer the consequences of rules you agreed to when signing up your official faction then just disband it.
You have 30 days to clock 24 hours with a minimum of 5 people.
that's around 16 minutes a day. In my opinion that's too lax. If you can't do 16 minutes a day, or 32 minutes every two days etc, why do you bother at all? A couple of hours at a weekend would even cover it each. So unless you don't play for weeks at a time (which is an inactive member) then there is no excuse.
in the end, you can always be a non-official faction, There is not much incentive to be an official faction if you don't make the time to Roleplay in game anyway.
If you want more motivation for your members, organize a compelling internal Roleplay for your members to enjoy. This is a Roleplaying server after all.
The Mods and the Admins need to start showing some unity too. You're on the same side of keeping us peasants inline. Getting tired of seeing this crap all over this forum every day, it's awful.