Steemit is great in many ways, but to REALLY attract top content creators, artists, YouTubers etc to the STEEM blockchain the payouts need to continue forever and not just stop at 1 week. STEEM needs to be BETTER and more appealing than the status quo and at the moment it just isn't.
It both has advantages as well as disadvantages. It raises for me personally the question whether a payment 5 years later from an article of mine is something I think of "deserving" it. Then one could argue that there are always people who still haven't found my work and the day they find it, they would like to give reward or payment. Therefore it is irrelevant what I think and more of what THEY think about my work.
I often thought how sad I find it when I read an older article and would have loved to give my up-vote but time window was over. That leads to establish the habit of NOT reading older articles and within only three months after joining the platform I got so used to it that I am now sticking to the habit only to read new stuff. Which kind of sucks.
I put much effort, love, care and sweat into my articles and most of them I would consider of good and high quality. Not getting depressed about it, it helps to think outside of steemit and what advantages this could have, I cannot think of right now. I am imagining much more business opportunities even with my old articles and people will come up with them, I bet! WITHIN steemit, so much is clear for me. As many see the above described disadvantage they will invent ways to overcome the obstacle of "7days"
My assumption is that my content here on steemit sits for good. Some day the reward will come, in this or that form.
If not: Well, then my world will not crash. But if yes, I am going to be delighted and maybe my son will have his fair share of my work ;-)
I wouldn't call more influencial people for a change but creative people to find smart and appealing ways out of the narrow schedule.
I am thinking to promote my best articles and make a competition out of it, calling the community to read and to vote for their favorite one. Once I have collected enough SBD (because I changed them all in the recent days) this might be a benefit and motivator for people reading my stuff. I know that is kind of a trick and I must think more in depths of it. But I just wanted to offer spontaniousley a thought to curve around that obstacle.
Great comment, I agree with pretty much everything you said. The ability to reward somebody for a great article more than 7 days after it was posted is good for both writers and curators. Sure the reward pool distribution will have to change and posts obviously won't earn as much in the first week as they do now but we'll be working towards a fairer and more incentivised system.