I think at the very least if they are going to keep the 7 day limit, the author of the post should get a sort of reverse curation reward for any comments that occur after the 7 day window. So, say, 25% of the rewards going to comments should go the original author.
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I've gotta say, this makes a lot of sense.
I do quite like the idea of the reverse curation reward on old posts. It continues Steemit's tacit goals of incentivizing quality posts and good behaviour.
However.
On the one hand, I understand the 7-day limit to begin with -- obviously, it ... encourages people to keep producing quality content and not just rest on the laurels of one or two mega-earning posts in perpetuity. Even published authors, however successful their debut, are generally expected to write more books. Taking it away might skew the system toward whales even more than it already is (not that there's anything wrong with that per se; power imbalances are inevitable, mass equals gravity.)
On the other hand, to continue with the metaphor, if a different author finds commercial success with her tenth novel, it will very often drive sales for her previously ignored previously unknown work, some of which might even be better than the one that kicked open the money gate. The long tail swings slow but (hopefully) sure. There are plenty of minnows (including myself, be I ever so humble) who are producing quality content that will, by and large, never be seen by anyone. If and when those minnows become whales with a ton of followers, all those good old posts might suddenly warrant a second read (OR a first) and suddenly deserve upvotes that they can't get because their 7-day limit passed, oh, a year ago. Of course, by then, their new posts are making them all the money they could possibly want so ... yay? If you're big enough for people to be going through your back catalog, your new stuff is probably already doing great anyway.
On the third tentacle, Steemit is not a closed system. Google gives anyone (random) access to any segment of the long tail at any time.
I guess what I'm saying is that, no matter the surrounding conditions, nothing succeeds like success.
Great points!
I woud definitely have to say my concern was let's say if someone was an instructor and they spent a lot of time doing a presentation of something, but then 100 posts later that information is lost.. But I do like what you said.