I was pleased you were putting feelers out there towards your potential recruitment into SoL Fisto. There is no doubt you are a legend to the clan in your own right; you have taught many people, helped many players, and it deserves recognition. What I think is necessary here though is that you divide a reputation alongside us from a potential reputation WITH us.
We have had many returning members lately and some of them have have been given recruitment (such as mantA who in my opinion was worthy of much more considering his important council contributions as an elected commoner), and they take it as an oppertunity to demonstrate their commitment to SoL, which you should also. I am disencouraged when you disgard a white spark when, as Yodah rightly states, you shouldn't bargain for your rank.
Your membership in ATS was even before my time in the clan. My earliest memory of you is an 'exile' from the clan and Outcast brainwashing me to ignore anything you said to me, I'm unsure of your circumstances in ATS but it was YEARS ago. I think, considering the level of evolution the clan has faced since the split in 09, recruitment is the only option for me.
I am happy to see you join us, positively enthusiastic for it, but my vote would be recruit. Considering we, as a majority, have little experiance of what you are like WITH us, as opposed to alongside us.