Maybe the [pardon me] average quality and knowledge is not yet past MySpace 2005. By which I mean hasn’t yet reached 2007 when blogging turned ever more professional.

If people could put ribbons on their profiles, you would want a browser extension to hide them.

But progress is happening, there’s many less footer banners nowadays.

We may get there.

“Social celebrities” is difficult. People become skeptical when they read “get paid”. So we really need to work them over weeks, and also with the quality.

Remember when Medium launched? Everyone initially let in was known in social circles or had several thousands of followers on twitter already. You arrived on Medium and you found awesome content upon arrival. Not an evil marketing banner with trending foods.

@steeveapp may have the key to help. But its beauty is hidden behind a login.