Haha we have the freedom to rant here ;)
Next - Content only holds value for 1 week.
I agree on that the 1 week limit on receiving posts rewards does indeed incentivize people to write for the short term, the mentality is "what can I write for today."
However the value of a post can be ongoing, the information in the post can be consumed infinitely so long as the steem blockchain is live. We have started to associate value with money, and have disregarded the fact that when write a post for the long term and people like it, they can come back to your blog and upvote your other posts. Additionally, people can earn different ways on their blogging. Not only through upvotes, the conventional blogging.
Thanks for coming by btw ;)
Well, its a bit of a double edged sword really - If I stumble on an older steemit blog post and I see that it has few upvotes its like a quality filter, so to speak, that tells me if I should invest a chunk of time into reading it. Thus if everyone is writing for the short term to get that built-in reward from upvotes it gets very repetetive content.
I think too man are so focused on the "hit piece" and the reward now, rather than building a following and thinking long-term.
Interesting to follow his discussion!
Brilliant Newby Comment :)
You are right, but you can write a novel worth of tutorials, not even breakthrough the startup SP, and people will gain value for years.
Knowing that the rewards of efforts for any efforts end at 7 days, it's better to write a singular article as multiple small parts spread out daily than to make a solid full length essay.
Yes, you'll make more attractive posts, over time you will build a larger following, but over those months and years, you still get to see garbage posts making hundreds or even thousands, daily.
The system is designed in such a way where there's a built in motivation to post click bait, to look into strategies like timing, what bots to use, what is the best time to click like... It makes it into a game.
Actually, even posts like this where there is a discussion following are few and far between.