[thibautdavoult]

These are two excellent points you're raising here. About the 1st one: My intent with the sentence wasn't just to focus on the added revenue these projects provide, but also on the increased visibility they give to Kickstarter as a whole, which very much carries a long term impact for Kickstarter (SEO benefits, better brand awareness, etc). But I see what you mean: If these projects were truly hurting Kickstarter as a platform for everyone, they probably would have figured a way to make them stop.

Which brings me to your second point. It's true that the celebrity status is extremely tough to define and even tougher to measure in order to apply fair rules for everyone. But if there's a need for it, that is: if the existence of some projects start being detrimental to others, then I trust Kickstarter will work on it, crunch some data to figure out a way to prevent that from happening while remaining fair to project creators. Maybe by blocking projects a-posteriori, as they already did in the past.