Hey Acid, I hope you're well. I think you're doing a great job so keep it up.
I notice one thing you mention above, community leaders not interested in growing their community. I've not been invited to the incubation thing, nor have I asked to be involved...It's not that I don't want to see the three communities (all niche communities) grow, just that I don't have the time to invest in them to do so, nor do I really know what's involved. I don't use Discord much and am not that tech-savvy so...I just sort of do my own thing and the interest in my communities reflects that lack of active input as far as growth goes.
So...Having said that, maybe it's not that community leaders don't want to see growth, maybe there's others like me who just feel that the time involved is not time they have?
I'm not complaining or whinging, just raising a point I guess. I could be way off base.
Anyway, from what I see you are doing a good job and making a difference. Keep it up.
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. :)
Hmm, ok that seems straightforward enough I guess.
So the channel is on Discord and all the leaders do is drop links there for promotion and someone (from amongst those leaders) writes a weekly curation post/report.
I suppose I often think there's simply not enough PEW or LEGO content to make it worth while. The Engage the weekend community also if I'm honest. This is why I've just sort of driven them myself and left your project for other more deserving communities.
I mean the PEW community is certainly something that could garner a lot of attention quick, especially with so many american's on Hive! :D
Stay tuned for when we start doing these trial runs of focused curation + contests to see if it will get you the activity you'd feel comfortable with in the community!
I'll keep my peepers peeled. 👍🙄
Oh and also, we would of course prefer the leader to be somewhat active still, of course activity can go in waves but we wouldn't want them to invite 2-3 helpers, push all the workload onto them and just go AFK while growing their accounts from our delegation and allowing them to front-run posts to receive higher ROI. So we do keep an eye on that too to make sure they're doing it because they genuinely are interested and experienced with the niche the community is about and not just in it for the wrong reasons.
Of course...I think that wouldn't be a problem for me, I'm fairly active. 🙂 (Although I've let myself down in the Lego community lately...Which will be rectified in the next few weeks when I'm on holiday from work.)
Don't let the lego's down or they'll start appearing at random on your floor for you to step on!
Haha! Yeah, the worst pain known to mankind. 🤣