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.