Yeah, so, in an essence what is involved in the incubation is this:

You get a designated channel for your community and a role that all community leaders share, there you just input links to posts you want more rewarded. The reason we went for channels instead of just going through the curation report posts is that some times when we get up to speed to vote through all nominations community leaders may appreciate a more "up to date" trending than having posts after the fact voted up 1-5 days late depending on when they end up writing the curation report and how active the community is (i.e. if there's only been 6 great posts to nominate in the last 3 days then write 2 per week, etc)

As for the curation reports, this is mainly to invite more curators, moderators and helpers to your community, with these posts you can easily share beneficiary rewards based on who helped how much that week and incentivize everyone to be active in curating, engaging and bringing life to the community. Of course many do so also without extra incentives like you but this is also meant to offload some work from only 1 person onto others they trust are helping the community grow and stay active.

So not sure if this answered your question, but say if we were to incubate your Pew community, you could invite other gun enthusiasts you trust and they could be in charge of dropping nominations along with you onto the channels, one of you could do the curation reports, share the rewards with each other, maybe set some aside through @reward.app to be used for tipping comments, etc.

We're also working on some ways to assist smaller communities so that we can incubate them into trials and kick it off with contests and focused curation to see if activity sticks onto them and continues past the "boost" so that the community can remain in the incubation longer until it is too big and won't need us anymore. Maybe you'd be interested in applying with one of yours by then. :)