The only thing which will really help is people caring about the community and using their downvotes to redistribute selfishly gained rewards. Be it on steem or with SMT.

I wrote a few posts trying to motivate people, but even with the different trails that can be chosen from people are reluctant. And I can't and don't want to keep writing again and again about the same stuff.

Maybe it needs more time for the culture to change, but if we don't manage to get there I don't see us going anywhere.