One of my hopes is in fact, that if content creators build up a reputation, that their older content will be read and probably upvoted / rewarded later. It should be like royalties (not sure if this is the right word). If you get interest in one of your ideas it could be rewarded in a year or even later.
The main thing about Steemit is, that nothing will be lost, isn´t it?
Oh this is true, it can be rewarded later. I think that will change and actually work overtime, but the majority of reward you see on all top articles falls within the first payment period. But yes, thats conceptually how it works in practice I don't know if we are seeing that yet for older content. The content then would need to be universal enough to defy time. I.e an article on the olympics is probably not going to be relevant 4 years down the track. @pollux.one good points though
Past 30 days there are no payouts or upvotes.
Seems like your content has one shot then within the first 12 hours. @markrmorrisjr
Really more like the first 2 if you want to make money.