Agreed. This post does touch on an important subject for any product or service: public perception.

If the top trending posts are all about celebrities saying, "Oh, hi. I'm here to see if I can really make money," then they're rewarded by all of their followers blindly upvoting their post, they don't really have any added incentive to produce actual value. We get it - you have a big following. We get it - you can make a lot of money by posting about a sneeze from earlier in the day. The point here is to use that influence to add value to the platform, not to gloat about how easy it was to make a bunch of money.

I get the importance of a large following, but I also know that really good content is being drowned - and the "whales" aren't really helping with that.

Here's something that can add value to the platform in many different ways. Let's get more stuff like this and less "Look how much I made yesterday!"

https://steemit.com/anarchism/@ats-david/enriching-lives-through-the-power-of-steemit