You definitely coined my fears very well, even if in principle, a few hours a week is not a big deal. The real problem is that the effort has to be provided on a decent period (a few months probably, with breaks being of course allowed).
On the other hand, I didn't even think about providing any incentive. We are talking about the beauty of research, and having a scientific publication advancing science as a reward. This being said, it is clear that I will support this myself as much as I can, and that STEMsocial will follow (if the project ever starts). I didn't plan to look for any other source of support, although anyone interested is free to help.
As a side note, we may naively think that with this project I will have people working for me for free. This is very untrue, as organising such a project will actually require much more from me than from all participants combined, knowing that I will have to verify every single finding, coordinate everything, etc. I can come back with a huge list of tasks. However, I think that having this happening on Hive may be cool.
Really agree with what you say that this is going to be a lot of work for you and that you just do it thinking on provinding back to the community.
When I was speaking about incentives I was more thinking on that if it is done creating interesting content in hive, it may generate some attention and contributors will see how they get rewarded.
It is a big decision because once you start it is going to be a lot of work and it would be a shame if the effort is wasted
I agree with everything that you wrote.
We have handles on incentives that could serve as extra bits to motivate people to participate, as well as an extra way to generate attention both from inside the Hive community and from outside it.
I will continue thinking about it and will make my decision over the week-end. Or maybe, I will just continue thinking for another week. Let's see. I am still very undecided, as can be guessed, although the "no no" is now mostly a "maybe" thanks to the positive feedback I got in the comments to this blog. ;)