Functionally, celebrities get away with vastly lower quality content. Many of their "contributions" would be utterly ignored if, for example, I posted them. It will be interesting to see what happens as we see celebrities (or, more likely, their PR employees) testing the waters on the platform.
When it comes to convincing others the platform is not a scam, I have had good luck emphasizing that:
- You do not have to put money in.
- You are not paid by any real entity, but rather a decentralized community - your payments comes from the crowd-sentiment which supports the value of Steem.
Still, places like Tsu have muddied the waters a bit. We'll have to work harder to promote, but that does give us early adopters a head start!
Indeed. Here is where I believe good content creators can create value and attract more people, much more than celebrities. After all, people who do want to engage in a more "quality" matter don't fall for the celebrity meme.