Sorry, I worded the "One Person One Vote" thing wrong, general consensus relies on one process one vote, this doesn't work in a permissionelss setting, so the two options are one CPU one vote or a stake based voting system (PoS) (yeah I know there is proof of elapsed time, memory based systems etc too). BUT, PoS "fixes One Person One Vote" for permissionless systems was what I was meaning to convey.

Nonetheless, the conclusion is the same. Either you don't have any financial incentives at all, or you have financial incentives with voting based on stake in an open system.

Of course, you gotta get the game theory elements right to incentive the right behavior based on this stake.

Second, I'm tired of your accusations, I barely care about the rewards here or multiplying my stake in any way (I do care about the value of my stake though).

If you strap the rewards of Steemit you got reddit, that's nothing new, nothing helpful. So you gotta make a new platform which is neither steemit nor reddit (hf trying). Or you try to fix the game theory behind the system to fix the incentives...

Communities != SMT, I think you got that one wrong. Communities only need 3 steem to buy a steem account and ready you are. If you want an SMT that will cost extra yes, but you don't need one.

It's a "soft-consensus" feature.