Unfortunately, that is the realization I have come to as well. Just like in your other post, people get their hopes up when they hear rewards and would be willing to work for those rewards. No whitepaper or long explanation will change that.
What needs to change is the reward system, not the users expectations when they hear it.
The currency generation, miners, witnesses, bots, and whales are all making money of this scheme. If anything should change, it be that some of each of those rewards should be given to ANY active user on the site. If your typical Facebook or Reddit user can come here and make a couple cents a day by voting, this place will grow massively. If they hear all this hype but see no actual rewards then they will abandon it for a more popular and polished service.
Figure out a way to give normal uneducated users a couple cents a day for just normal reddit type activity. That is the only way this will work.
Maybe you mean a couple dollars a day. No one is going to care about a couple cents. That wouldn't even be enough to pay for electricity. With 100,000 people active it would only be $200,000 a day which is reasonable if you have ad revenue and other sources. Opt-in ad revenue can allow much more money.
That would be even better. I was talking about the regular old contribute nothing useful users though, that only post funny pics and smartass comments. If those guys can make even a free beer a week, this place would explode.
You are correct about actual contributors and ad revenue if this gets rolling, but for that to happen a few million regular users need to be hooked on getting paid first.