Hi again, Sue, It just occurred to me you were probably talking about signing on to Reciprocal as opposed to signing up with a collecting society - I'm a bit of a collecting society geek so my mind tends to go there first.
You make a good point. If the aim of the publication is to create a support group that reads and interacts with each other's articles then it's clearly going to benefit people who are here to earn money. It'll depend how it goes. I'm hoping it'll become a useful source of interesting articles. I'm lazy, sometimes I just want to settle down with a cuppa and let someone else choose my reading matter. But if it becomes focused on how to earn, I think it'll wither. Maybe keep an eye on it and see how it goes before you decide.