As I said anyone can create a club on any topic they want even if its a duplicate. Although it would be better to have one club than two.
So came the response from one of the DA staffers. I needed to make sure that if its okay for duped clubs to co-exist with one another. Though they do agree that there should be really only one club of a subject.

In the months after I joined, which was in 2003, DA seemed to be really uptight about clubs back then. They didn't like all the duped clubs. When some moron created a duped Super Sonic club that came after mine, I was advised by ~myphrill that I go in the DA Help chat room and ask about it. Their initial response was "It's not recommended." When asked about what I should do with the duped club: "Do nothing. That club will probably die off."

Since then, I have been going by with what they said when I encountered more duped clubs. I was successful in shutting down each of them, either by inviting their creators to be co-owners of my original clubs or just by convincing them to shut down, or just let them die off. There was one I couldn't shut down, and that was Shadow Fan Artists. So in turn, I closed down mine instead and became a co-owner of that club.

So here I am again facing another club conflict, this time involving Silver. I decided to re-confirm what they said by asking them. And obviously, its different this time.

It seems that deviantART has fallen to a very common syndrome that other community sites had. I call it "the Yahoo Groups syndrome," in which tons and tons of duped clubs co-exist on a single community site. It seems that DA has allowed this to happen.

In my opinion, this syndrome takes the point away from creating and owning a club. I mean, why own a club of a particular subject when there are tons and tons of the same thing already? I really do not get that at all. IMO, there really should be only one club. So what if its gotten big? Just hire a co-owner. It's what I would do. There's really no incentive to create a duped club, unless of course, the original club is long dead.

To sum that up, I just don't feel right owning a club when I know there's another club that exists, especially if that club is gaining more popularity, therefore rendering my club more useless every time.

*sighs heavily* Maybe I should just give up on the club business entirely...