That's a whole bunch of reading lol but I'll tell you what I remember...
First you will mostly find in the COMM threads FUD and talk about the supposed "Premine being lost because the HDD failed", then the Dev doing hardly anything and saying you do the work cause we are Community I set bountys for help.
Then Multipools were in process to earn us COMM payouts for mining other coins, it was the start of a good thing !
I was in with the COMM crowd from the start had my 1m COMM then after a lot of arguments in the thread the original receivers (Like me) got an additional 1M COMM, so all up I got 2 Million COMM.
The first Exchange for COMM was allcrypt, Yes allcrypt ! lol
Then it was all a blur after that because of the big COMM community Votes and donations we were pushed to the top on Mintpal and were listed (Mintpal was the best at that time)
Soon after the others listed us too no doubt
I remember the price being in the 70sat and then it went to the 120-140sat before tapering off back down to 60sat level, during the rise there was an awful lot of COMM being Dumped but people kept raking it in because it was hard to come by + the PoS inside the wallet earned you more coins with however many you had to stake
Backed by an ever growing COMMunity.
We got Listed on a wide range of places, COMM was even on CoinPayments.net so Merchants can use their Payment Processor and accept COMM payments equivalent to the Live Exchange price.
COMM was on Coaex Precious Metals website, there was a card design made from the Graphics of the COMMunityCoin logo packaged with a 1gram IGR 999.9 Fine Gold bar, I seriously considered getting one with COMM as a Payment but didn't sadly
Eventually I was holding 1M and only sold 1M + the PoS interest on my coins yet I was selling at the very beginning (to Distribute) and on the way down 80-60sat right before the crash.
When it was time to sell my remaining COMM it was in the 30-45satoshi mark and I was done unfortunately....
Since it was Free & Looking at the price now, the amount of coins in circulation plus the massive bag holders gaining more & more coins if it still does even stake, It was a pretty good time to get out, I got 2BTC all up, My first 2 whole Bitcoins ever, I was a happy chappy
That's my story with COMM, now it starts again
Looking at things now there would have to be new plans & developments, features to the wallets and use + a redistribution of COMM or something to make it fair & get people back on the COMM horse, like you said you would have to find the Big COMM holders to arrange something like that, but that's just 1 idea...
I finally synced the COMM wallet as I had too many different wallets running at the same time to catch up quick enough with COMM so I let it be the only one run for a while, without bootstrap or anything with my original wallet.
I had 60 odd COMM in there unsynced once it synced up I received my payment of 100 or so coins that I found in an old Multipool balance I was registered with, (Imagine that) lol
I have yet to be able to stake anything and my wallet is unlocked, does the wallet still produce PoS rewards ?