I wouldn't be bugged by contextual advertising. But I can't imagine the developers will leave all that content out to dry without a plan to handle upvotes of archived posts.
Even the whitepaper hints at the idea:
The impact of this voting and payout distribution is to offer large bounties for good content while still rewarding smaller players for their long-tail contribution.
I think the idea is just on the back burner for now.
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Steemit is so awesome! Thanks guys! Papa-pepper is a big winner now!
hope so, but they have better hurry up. At the moment, I think the payout distribution is like:
time 0 -- 99% -- 24 hours --- 1% ---4 weeks --- 0% ---- infinity
even the "0%" is not yet an issue (though soon will be) as the "1%" issue is more severe.
Actually, there's no need to hurry. I believe the blockchain can record upvotes of archived posts, even now. It just can't do anything with them yet. There's still a lot of time between now and when millions of registered steem users are using google to find a random post. That's when we need a solution.
That might be true. But I mean at least the dev team should let most diligent authors know that we cherish what you have done here, not by rewarding you right now, not by merely expressing that everything will be recorded, but by promising to give their works a even slightest possibility to shine again. Shift voting attention from 24h-99% to 4wks-1% is one way to deliver this message. Hope is a strong driving force.