Hive account@lestatisticien - I share your concerns and add a third question. When you say, "creating the image that this is a collaborative project," you imply that it really is not collaborative and will never be. Are all "organizations" inevitably "ruled" by the original members? I have run away from a number of Steemit communities which had very rigid membership rules. One such community actually had a "membership application" which could not be viewed before beginning the application process. So I asked one of the members about making the application visible so that anyone who might consider joining the group would know what questions will be asked. The member declined to answer and disappeared. The group was organized around a rather innocuous general interest, "philosophy and the humanities." Now what, I wondered, might be the "membership requirements" of such a group? The ability to think? ("Cogito ergo sum"?) The ability to breathe? (Yes, I am still alive at the moment.) The ability to recognize BS? Bingo.

If Hive account@gaman 's project becomes "too well organized," too structured, too exclusive, too elitist, the criteria for membership might defeat the purpose.