Nice video. Quite interesting too. Personally, I believe that having a 30 day limit for payments is self-defeating for steemit. Surely archived material should be valued. In real life of course, wines mature and acquire value, paintings and so on. I have asked in a post recently if we could have an index, so that we can return to posts later. If these posts are to be of lasting value, then they must be 'valued' for more than 30 days surely. There will be people who join in 31 days or longer who may want to interact with previous posts and may confer far better value to the post, than there ever was 31 days previous.
However, very handy to know this. Thank you again for this information. Upvoted !
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It depends what kind of a platform Steemit wants to be. It cannot be all things to all people. This is why we have Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube, Reddit etc they each cater to a different niche.
Steemit at the moment is a good destination to discover newly created content because that has the biggest incentive. It therefore gives preference to certain types of content such as news.
Most people will view my tutorials long after the payouts have stopped. So Steemit isn't the best place for me to put them really.
The developers of Steem are juggling a hugely complex set of interactions. One small change has a ripple effect through the whole system. These effects can't be predicted 100% until they are live.
The hardest part is making the system hard to game. I do not envy them in this task.
It's true that it cannot be all things to all people. But if steemit is purporting to ascribe value to blogs/posts then it cannot say that what is valuable today (29th August), is not valuable on the 29th September. It should have some component of payment that pays after say, 6 months and perhaps even after 5 years. If it wants people to remain in steemit, this would fit in with the business model, as people would be loathe to leave, if they knew they had their forthcoming 6 monthly payment to come in a couple of months' time. It would fit in with the ethos of their company. Of course, I wouldn't want steemit to hold back massive percentages but a suitable percentage would be appropriate. It would also provide further stability to the company in the long term. It would also give a chance for 'failed' posts (where the poster had perhaps worked very hard, but posted at the wrong time etc) to subsequently become successful posts. So there are a number of reasons why they should do this, IMHO.
Of course, steemit is still in Beta stage so can address this issue.
I think posts should earn after 30 days and accept comments. A lot of them will still be relevant then. For things like tutorials there could be an option to 'pin' them so they don't disappear from your feed.
I've noticed any of mine earning anything after the first day. It would be good to have a view of any posts that have recently earned something. I would expect we will get more stuff like that as Steemit evolves