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Agreed. I think the whale's would be well served to support users new to content creation like Stellabelle as opposed to continuing to pump ppl like Dollarviglante who are justing sharing their existing content on a new platform.

Agreed though I think whales are still working on growth and by pumping people that have massive networks to share their success with steemit will grow faster. Dynamics will change over time though I am sure.

@ntomaino, @rachelkhona - good point, "steemit stars" need to be created organically and from the steemit "farm system" if you will. In the long run that will make steemit more distinguishable as a person will be famously know as "so and so from steemit."

Yup -- its just a more sustainable way for the community to grow. Only so many people are likely to switch from existing networks. I think its more likely that a whole new group of people are going to emerge on Steemit and it always helps to have some examples to point to (Stellabelle probably being the best example to date).