I agree with everything that you wrote.
We have handles on incentives that could serve as extra bits to motivate people to participate, as well as an extra way to generate attention both from inside the Hive community and from outside it.
I will continue thinking about it and will make my decision over the week-end. Or maybe, I will just continue thinking for another week. Let's see. I am still very undecided, as can be guessed, although the "no no" is now mostly a "maybe" thanks to the positive feedback I got in the comments to this blog. ;)