There's nothing preventing you from creating a new topic, linking and tagging the original author etc. Yes ideally the old topic could continue forever, but if there are technical limitations we have to make a sacrifice somewhere.
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Ok....I'm just thinking beyond this simple connection attached by a compliment.
Instead, I'm thinking a bit bigger. What if there was a (philosophical, medical, political, etc...) discussion that actually went to new places on Steemit.com? Later, someone searches Google and finds a topic where a discussion has occurred and they want in. Ideally, you're right it would be best to have replies hang out together on the exact same discussion....but, I guess we could just start it again.
The biggest drawback is that the original won't be able to have a link to the continuation. But maybe we can come up with a convention for continuation posts to make them easy to find.
just @ (name) the person so they can search for the continuation....but yes, frustration also felt...
That completely negates the purpose of freezing a discussion - to save resources on the blockchain; with a 30 day topic freeze time limit, i'll be forced to continuously spam the same topic & will be unable to link to specific discussions on websites (since after 30 days they won't be able to participate in the topic).
Not quite. The resources we're saving are due to limiting the complexity of the voting system. By freezing discussions, topics automatically go out of date and cease to affect processing of new rewards. Only the small minority of topics that people discuss over a long time will be reposted.
I agree with your second point, but it wouldn't be particularly challenging to have a workaround for this, such as pages for post series. They could highlight where posting is still possible or just have you post in the latest by default. You could even build a front end view which amalgamates continued threads into one continuous thread. I doubt it's a high priority issue yet though.
What if after the 30 days rather than increasing the complexity of the reward mechanism, you just disabled the reward mechanism and let the discussion continue?
Building a new front end to steem to maintain a single topic is outside the skillset of the majority of steemit's userbase.
You'd probably need to check or ask on GitHub why they didn't go with that option.
It wouldn't be for one topic. If it was just about one topic, it wouldn't be the major disadvantage you said it was. If there is a demand for this feature, the Steem Blockchain and codebase is quite open for someone with the skills to fill this demand.