I like what you wrote in your article. It brings up a very important discussion about the future of the Steemit community. The celebrity post take-offs, and the idea that we are going to attract a ton of people to this site this way, is misguided (in my opinion). We are just attracting more people who want to exploit Steemit to make quick/easy money.

Personally I am not against the fact that @dollarvigilante's post made as much as it did, or that he got all excited and kept posting more about how awesome it was. If I was making $15,000 I would probably be posting a pretty awesome review myself :) Maybe his contribution of joining really is worth that much to the community. Who am I to say that it's not.

I think it is really important that we as a community decide on how we want to promote Steemit though. Do we want to advertise it as a way to make quick easy money, or an awesome platform that has huge long-term potential?

I want to end on one big point though - It is the voters who really decided that his content was worth so much more than all the other great contributes that were posting that day. If we have an issue with @dollarvigilante making that much on his posts, our issue is really with everyone that upvoted it, and not him.