I am waiting for the first post from Kim Kardashian, showing off her huge butt in the cover pic and making 30k. This will be the begining of the end - if we are not already there. Paying posts with money in such a direct way kills quality and any meaningful discussion. Steemit will never replace Reddit or medium, or even a specific themed forum. There are a million tools, slack channels, gliph channels etc that try to pick potential trending posts for people to mindlessly u vote. I really doubt if vigilantes posts are read by more than 10% of those who upvote them.

Apart from that, the value of steem is going down. You cannot track the dollar, when you pay 10k per celebrity post, the value will crash. And that's when the vigilantes will dissappear. Because they don't give a fuck.