RE: Why Steemit is not attractive to quality content producers
You are right that the 7-day payout window is one of the primary issues for bringing real content publishers to the platform. I have first-hand experience trying to bring some content publishers to the platform, or build sites and services on the platform targeting serious content publishers, and that is always raised as a major issue.
The primary reason (as far as I am aware) for having a set payout period is that it is extremely resource intensive to keep all content ever posted to the blockchain in the active state file on Steem nodes for payouts. With the 7-day window, all content older than 7 days can be mostly ignored by consensus nodes.
I believe the way to solve this problem is via a soft-consensus / UI mechanism. For example, if someone were to upvote a post older than 7 days on steemit.com, the condenser code (which runs steemit.com) could actually make a new post which is a copy of the original post and upvote that.
It could use the json_metadata for the new post to indicate in a standardized fashion that it's a copy of the original post for the purpose of extending the payout period so that the UI would not show the two posts separately.
I think things like this will be much easier to implement once Hivemind is released, and I hope to see such a system for extending post payouts using post copies which are hidden from users via the front-end UIs.
Hello Matt, great post and really valid points as a new Steemian @ClubnGrubn is building from the ground up with the Steem Blockchain at the center of our content development and long term strategic vision. We believe it’s the new media content creators that will be blazing the trail whereas the traditional media content providers will eventually catch on after the community continues to grow and solidify the model of being incentive driven to social media interactions. We are super excited about the technology and community and are working for longevity. Folks like you and fellow Steemians are way ahead and early adapters.
I thought i could be hard to implement something like this without boggind down the network.
But If some solution on that end isnt technically possible, then i think we, as a community, use steemit as a Reddit like plataform, and the devs also should Go that direction.
Wich means que should drop the whole "quality content" discourse. (But spammers and plagiarism and other copy/paste like posts should still be fought against)