These silly factions problems stems from a incredibly amateurish lack of features like :
- renaming (recreate the whole faction just to change names, gosh), 
- rank settings (you cant even see what ranks does, come on  

) 
- an invite players function (if you got less than active members, be prepared to have them re-enter your faction in 1-2 weeks, and not before bugging you about a DIRECT LINK to where to go to apply to the said faction)
- and maybe a "reclaim leadership" function like the cRPG part (for dotter's problems)
in half an hour an average developer could plug those holes, thats the shameful part