My opinions.
Payouts:
I think the 7-day payout is a good idea BUT I think the posts should remain open for payouts in perpetuity because Google does pick them up and some evergreen posts may not find traction until 30+ days. That being said, I've yet to see a post make a shit-ton of money beyond the initial 24 hours anyway but blocking potential earnings sucks.
And what's the point of permanent editing if the payout stops after 7 days? Just wondering about the mind-think on that one.
Comment payments:
I don't know that it's necessary to separate these. Sometimes comments are just as informative and thought-out as a post and develops good conversations. Now with expanding threads, this makes it a lot easier. That being said - and I mentioned it on @steemblog's post - I would change comments payouts to reward comments over 100 characters (or 80 characters + pic/gif). Comments under 100 characters would get nothing. "Nice Post" with bot upvotes get no reward. See where I'm coming from? With this in place you don't need to worry about beneficiaries. How's a newbie going to understand all this???
Remove Posting Limit:
Bad idea. Look - if we really want quality then it actually takes TIME to write and format a post. I forecast a shitload of meme's and super short posts clogging the feeds. I've personally removed a lot of people from SteemVoter because they posted more than 3 times a day, which was siphoning my vote power.
Oh, and by the way - Hi Tim! I've missed you. ;)
One of the problems with this, is the power down period needs to be longer than the potential payout window, otherwise users could keep powering down their SP, powering it up into a new account, and revoting the same content over and over to siphon rewards.
The first thing that came to mind when I read your response is: You have to think like a crook to beat the crook. LOL
Doing something like that would never have crossed my mind. I guess I need to hang out with you more my sullied friend. hahaha
LOL!
Hi @merej99 - missed you too! Thanks for sharing your thoughts :) I'll be addressing a lot of these points in my witness post today.