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 Hive account@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 Hive account@dollarvigilante making that much on his posts, our issue is really with everyone that upvoted it, and not him.