I do not agree. This is called social media. So you have to engage socially to be noticed. Just posting something and hoping that a whale will find you wont be enough.
So users can use the chat to promote their post, they can try to reach out to their followers.
Now we have 60.000 Users. It wont matter if its 12 or 24hours. Imagine we have 6.000.000 Users. Everypost will just vanish. So to survive the future Steemit, you have to have a network of followers.
Changing it back to 24Hours will only help for a couple of weeks, after that it wont help, as the new posts will have tripled.
Exactly , its better to focus on building your own network of followers and forget thinking about whales and other "creatures" Hello via Bali