You're talking about the professional shoot?

It's not valuable to me either as far as content. The case has been made that in order to generating excitement and exposure it isn't bad in the short term to have big payouts even on content we don't see a value in. I agree but I also think that there is too much voting based on attractiveness of the photos and whale following.

It would be more beneficial for someone who has a genuine interest in Steem or the community beyond the SBD rewards to be rewarded with a large payout. The community needs distribution, so it needs more whales & dolphins to spread their upvotes around to minnows as well as create content. Users only reciprocating upvotes in their own little circles won't do this.

It's also detrimental to the market if these users immediately cash out large amounts of Steem or SBD and dump it on the market. This user withdrew their first big Steemit SBD reward to an exchange, it's logical to assume they sold it immediately.

One of the biggest growing pains is going to be popular content like this that earns big bucks. Value is subjective. And sorry to be sexist but there are users that are playing up to those that will vote for a pretty face with poor or mediocre content. Also there are always going to be nitches, photography isn't my thing so I can't really appreciate it. Give me a really good sci-fi writer or someone who I can debate and converse with on certain topics and I'm more interested.

So after looking at the user's history I don't think that the post was anywhere near as valuable as it was rewarded from the viewpoint of contributing to the community either.

My other concern is what will happen to these one hit wonders when (I'm optimistic) users start moving toward better quality content? Those that become discouraged my dump their Steem, depending on how much is dumped it could devalue Steem considerably.

Some of this goes back to site vs community viewpoints. Sigh, and I need to learn to condense my thoughts better. Still too many words. :D

Thanks for the conversation.