Cliqin.com - Band Together Join a Blog Cliq

A Cliq is a consortium of bloggers who have pooled their blogs together to increase their traffic. In other words, Cliq is a sort of blog network in which related blogs can join together to get their readership numbers up. Members of a cliq are able to share links and direct traffic amongst each other via the Cliq widget, which also keeps members on the ball about their own blog performance in comparison to the other blogs. Bloggers can join any public Cliq, however some cliqs may be joined by invite only. Otherwise bloggers can start their own, brand new cliq and thus become that Cliq's leader. So far, there aren't that many existing Cliqs to join, but you are free to register and create your own.

"CLIQ is a group of bloggers working together to increase their collective readership and audience engagement.
Members of the same CLIQ share links to featured, popular and related blog posts on their respective sites by though the CLIQ Widget. They can also manage their featured posts and see reports about which Blogs and posts are getting the most views and driving the most referrals around the CLIQ."

Cliq takes on the 'band together' mindset, which assumes that the more the merrier. This sounds pretty tempting on paper, after all it's probably easier to get more coverage and readers if you're part of a network; each individual blog contributes to an increase in traffic; it also spurs competition, so that each blogger ups their game.

Will people take to Cliq? As with many sites, Cliq only works if it has enough users, will it be able to achieve critical mass? What's the criteria for joining a particular cliq—is it completely up to the cliq leader?