Ya, the short life cycle was surprising to me at first and I'm still not sure what I think of it. Do we all have ADD in the future?
I had been thinking of a blockchain way to reward stories, and when I heard about Steemit I thought that might be it, but the life cycle makes it more about quicker spurts of attention.
Seems like there is a role for pinning things to the top for longer, for certain types of discussions. Or in the case of stories, for forever basically, based on what's best, sorted by genre.
What I'm unclear about is whether Steem could be used by a different site/app to have a longer life cycle, like if the 12 hour thing is built into Steem itself or just the Steemit site.
Would be cool to see different sites with different life cycles to encourage different types of content, if that's possible to do.
You just gave me an idea for a new post!
Sweet! If it's along the lines of the story thing and different life cycles... I'm vaguely thinking of posting something similar. Curious to see what you come up with.
The idea of having branches for different life cycles would be FANTASTIC. Some specifically tailored to purely original content.