RE: What's a Valuable Steem User ? And how to retain a valuable user base on Steem ?

[jga]

Hi @roxane, I agree with you.
When I made steem activity for the first time I only get 9 USD. After that many people write me telling that it was helpful for them. I realized that if I wanted to be rewarded for this tool then I would need to make updates and next make new posts telling about that. This is what I done, and I get more reception, but this time thanks to the @utopian-io project and you.
The problem with the actual scenario is that the funding of the projects are dependent to updates, and other things like infrastructure and maintenance can not be taken into account (a post is not interesting if you say you did maintenance).

Your post has made me think that maybe there is a solution to this.

Solution 1: like @jerrybanfield

Jerry as witness has important steem incomes. He has a project called @budget. You have to make a post telling about the project that you want to deploy and the amount of money that you need including maintenance costs. And if it is approved then you will receive funding from him.
Advantages: It is funded from a witness. It is working now! (there are very good projects right now).
Disadvantages: If the development is liked by many people but not Jerry, then there will be no financing. That is, everything is reduced to the liking of 1 person.

Solution 2: Payments after a week

I think we can propose a new way to compute the reward system: Imagine the possibility to be rewarded for a post indifenitely. That is, eliminating the 7 days limit.

This will not be for all post but for a special type of post (an additional checkbox for the author to claim rewards forever). After the first week the payment is like now. After that, every week the blockchain pays only to the author based on the new votes received. From the side of curators we need an option to automatic vote this type of posts (if we want to support them).

In this situation the author can fund his project for maintenance and infrastructure. And he need to do the right things in order to be rewarded continuously.

Advantages: It is funded by the community.
Disadvantages: The philosophy of steemit is proof-of-brain. People could use it badly, asking for funding where it should not. For this reason I mention that it is not for all posts but special posts (and the curators have to select well).

Comments

[sorin.cristescu]

I absolutely support the second solution : "I think we can propose a new way to compute the reward system: Imagine the possibility to be rewarded for a post indifenitely. That is, eliminating the 7 days limit.".
I don't think it's easy to implement, it will certainly require a profound rethink of the whole system but the truth is, Steemit functions as a blog, which "depreciates content" as if was news. A lot of people post fitting content such as technical analysis on crypto. But many other people prefer to post content that does not lose value after 7 days (if ever). It is quite frustrating even for the reader (let alone for the author) to stumble upon a beautiful gem such as this post of @zipporah and not be able to reward the author for the pure joy of reading because ... the post is 24 days old !
All the while a lot of energy is being spent left and right by @berniesanders and grumpy cat fighting the likes of haejin and sweetsssj and random beginners unaware of some arbitrary rules ...