Right, very interested to see how this with Steem Community Tokens will play out like you mention. I'm definitely here for the long haul..or at the very least, give it a fair few months and then re-evaluate the results for the time I'm putting in. Plus tbh it's mostly fun, doesn't really feel like w-o-r-k :D

"At some point new potential members will run to get in. But if they do not get payed at all, that will be a reason to stop. Or if it does not seem to be so easy as they hoped it would be. And so on." > I have a feeling at that point the Steemit team will have developed a system to prevent this, ie via tokens - because if not then there would be a very finite limit on the success their platform can have. And I'm pretty sure no one wants that!