Self-Shilling and Steemit go together like peas and carrots, it's a pay-to-win system, so if you want your posts, ideas, and ideologies front and center, you pump some money into them, and voila... you're "Hot" and "Trending"!
Which to most translates into honest, truthful, and the real deal.
Once you're on top, you simply proceed to shill away my friend... shill away.
That's highly problematic though since at this stage is anything but a free economy. We only have the reward model in hand. If someone else figures out how to do it better then Steemit will be gone.
I think about that a lot. Second-mover advantage... correct Steemit's mistakes. I don't see any real threats yet, but we'll be challenged soon enough.
Very true indeed.