Thanks for the feedback!

Yeah, the two things you hit on, small candidate pool for team members and size of rewards would definitely be a challenge as far as "getting the flywheel spinning". To address the reward challenge, I wonder if something like this might even offer a more legitimate purpose for the delegation bots... (Haven't really thought that through yet, so that's just an offhand remark)

In my opinion, one account, for which several authors would write, could become a kind of flagship of the community.

I think that's an important point, which I also mentioned in my post (as an afterthought). Right now, communities are anchored to rewards. Anchoring a community to a blog account that's producing regular on-topic content could be a big change for the better.