He's simply riding off his existing external fame.
This^ quote suggests to me that you do blame him. I mean not him as a person but you are clearly upset about the way he acted.
I see a problem with people simply amplifying their external networks to override the internal network effects of Steemit.
Why didn't you say this instead: "I see a problem with people upvoting poor content by famous people".
He is wrong about the reason why he's made so much money from his posts.
He said he'd made money on Steem for two reasons:
- he has a prior reputation
- he has the ability to attract plenty of new users to Steem.
Do you say the real reasons are different than that?
Reasons are true... and could be summed up in one post, no need to milk the system for 6 posts pretty much all saying the same thing. It is the metagame that I'm criticizing. Yeah, we all get that Steemit is great, that's why we are here, but we could stop with the circlejerking. A million people have posted the same thing while giving the same explanations. I don't want to see groupthink bubbles being encouraged on the platform. I understand that it's temporary and people have a right to profit off this phenomenom while they still could, but it's time to move past this to truly grow Steemit sustainably.
Viral != network effect. Steemit has already gone viral. Now it's time to focus more on the internal network effects for sustainable growth.