I tend to agree with most of your points. The major problem I see in the short term rewards system is that people do not have the same incentive to optimize (SEO) their content for search engines. Why bother trying to include the right keywords in the title, adding a proper alt-tag for the image etc. when most rewards coming from search engines will be indirect?
If it were for SEO purposes then I would much rather publish my writings on my own website first and having Google index that site before publishing it here on Steemit.
There a many advantages of the short term rewards system of Steemit, but when talking SEO I don't see the advantage.
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@ronni
Yeah, I can understand your point about SEO and time frame. Hadn't really thought about it, that much... after many years, I'm just more or less "in the habit" of phrasing and structuring according to my sense of "what would people look for to find this?"
But of course, most people don't think like that.