You haven't obviously thought about the implications of designing an elaborate game that eventually adds up to Ponzi.

Let's conclude that all of the steeminc, everyone of the whales, sells out, and the price of steem drops to essentially zero to one satoshi, you would call that a ponzi scheme?

It may well be that it doesn't fully qualify as a scam

Correctly, it can either be a scam or it is either not a scam. It can become a scam or it doesn't become a scam. There isn't any in between, a scam exists or a scam doesn't exist.

but it sure looks like one,

Just doesn't fully qualify as a scam..

and that's gonna be enough for the suspicious and wary people like myself who have a personal vendetta against all scammers.

But unfounded suspicion and paranoia aren't that different.

As for being more diplomatic or dumbing it down. I'll leave that to the dumber down below. I'm not going to use my wits to deceive people and if they don't understand and hate me for speaking a language they can't understand, they should go live in a foreign country for a while and see how much it is upon them to learn rather than criticise those who speak in a foreign language.

It's not deceiving, it's being diplomatic, but more or less simply extending your respect and understanding to others, after all I am sure you both have the same goals in mind for the project and share similar values, and calling them dumb or inferior through your wits isn't a shared respect.