Thanks for replying Tim!

About the potential new requirement to disable payouts for "council" type communities, would they affect the payouts in SMTs, if a community decides to have one which would practically be closed to members only? Or that would apply only to the STEEM reward pool?

I'll be a kind of a messenger here with a question, if it's ok with you: will there be room in the future development of communities as you envision them for what I've seen requested a few times, the possibility to switch guest posting on and off within a community?