I predict this idea of selling yourself & your effort will inflate the value further before people drift away from the platform for the amount of spam, then stabilising & increasing slowly and the core community around here starts to develop.

Look at me... I'm just posting for upvotes and access to the coin speculatively, so most posts, upvotes & comments will be hysterical & low quality for a while. Growth will be much more akin to the growth of other social networks. Steemit.com doesn't have much on-boarding advantage over incumbent social networks, it just seems to be a better long term model, a more morally acceptable economic model, but that only points to slow sustained growth, not immediate exponential growth.