The time frame available for upvoting steemit posts is one week. Then comes payment and all steemit posts become inactive in terms of earning steem. Why is that? I find it quite strange that posts that rquired hard work from their writers are not able to keep earning after seven days. New steemit users don't get the chance to upvote content of great value just because it was written in the past. Creators can often be discouraged to write pieces that require research and are time consuming (e.g journalism articles) when the prospects of potential rewards are limited.
My preferred method would be to extend the earning period indefinitely. Payment could still occur after seven days. Actually payouts should be made each week without any limitation.
Mainstream social media already offers the ability to monetize your content indefinitely.
Steemit should offer its users that option as well.
The problem of your suggestion is purely technical, the computational power required to payout post rewards would linearly grow indefinitely. This way STEEM can "stop thinking" about posts it has already paid out after a week, which means less stress on the Witnesses' servers.
You can always just look at the authors' most recent posts.
For someone who's never written a blog. Has 3 comments including this one and a reputation of 25 that's a awfully profound answer. Better than I could give. You must be someone's other account 👀 or exceptionally nerdy ...
Hi,
thanks for the response! This is a second account, I lost all but my posting key to my original account @emmanuel.singer.
I love to share what I know and learn from others, and believe that STEEM is a great platform for doing so, notwithstanding that it doesn't seem to be used for that much right now.
lol
I don't know if this scaling problem can be solved within the mode that steemit currently functions.
One week still feels way too short and unfair to the authors. The user should perhaps have the option to donate part of the rewards (as a permanent setting) to support the additional computational power needed.
Sure then when someone makes someone else mad they can go and endless flag all your post and demonetize them. /s
Good point!
Well, the downvoting option should not be available indefinitely.