Further community incubation thoughts and possible plans

Looking at the recent stats of the OCD Community Incubation update and knowing that next time @dalz is also going to provide activity statistics, meaning we'll also be seeing amount of unique authors posting and commenting in said communities and how the incubation has/is affecting it. We recently gave away a lot of engage to engaging users that the community nominated and many of the community leaders and curators in our incubation who wanted some, so we're hoping that will have a visible affect on engagement. Of course this kind of counts as "buying" engagement, but I guess incentives are what make the world go round and something at the base layer of hive that has always existed there. Those who really don't want to engage won't lose out on anything more than they are now, but nothing wrong with rewarding those who do especially after the EIP curve tax change that makes rewarding engagement and very short form content a bit harder by penalizing your voting strength.

Another idea I recently had, mainly due to looking at the Feathered friends community and the amazing tipping activity by @melinda010100 is to also encourage community leaders & curators to use the awesome tipping feature provided by @peakd that makes it so easy to tip to posts and comments. To beat the curve tax mentioned above I thought a good way to do this would be to encourage community leaders who already write curation reports which they share with their curators and team members, to set aside part of those rewards and use them for tipping.

One easy way to do so would be to set a beneficiary to @reward.app which only takes 1% fee of the author rewards but returns liquid rewards instead. A curation report could set 20-30% of the beneficiary to that account and we'd give it a bit higher vote instead to make up for it.

The vote would of course depend also on the size of the community and activity, the team members could decide themselves how they want to distribute it with the communities growth and engagement in mind.

Another thing with the OCD community which I posted recently about that we're about to "revive" and guide users posting content that could fit better in the communities we're now support is that, when being told not to post there many seem to get overly defensive, not realizing we're asking them to do so for the health of the platform in mind. One user even unvoted our witness over this which is kind of funny.
So I'm thinking instead of curating those posts and leaving them a comment letting them know where their posts could fit better in, instead maybe we could put aside some tips for those so that if they want the curation they can instead post in the niche community relevant to their content. If they also want the visibility the OCD community would bring, cross-posting is now visible on hive.blog too so they'd just have to use peakd.com to cross-post onto OCD.

Anyway, just some thoughts I had and figured I'd pick your brain on what you think about it or if you have any better solutions or additions, would appreciate feedback!

Another thing I've been pondering about is onboarding initiatives, we did an experiment a while back but I think leaving it for "anyone to participate" may leave too big of a window for abuse. Will be posting about some solutions on that soon and I'd appreciate your opinions there as well.

I realize some people may think "oh you're trying to raise engagement without being engaging yourself" and honestly, I wish I was in a position at the moment where I could use Hive the way I used it in my first year where I'd just curate and leave comments everywhere or the way I used Reddit for many years which was pretty similar to that. Really busy right now on a few other projects that will hopefully come to life soon and thinking of the best ways to make this platform healthier like the ideas above. Hopefully I can go back to my old ways soon and using Hive the way I most enjoyed it.