A few months ago I was thinking about having several blockchains as sidechains to serve different timescales for content.
Three-blockchain-model could be something like this:
- Fresh content. Twitter-like short messages, memes, breaking news. If content is older than 24 hours, very few are interested in it anymore.
- Blog-like content. Essays, opinions, commentary, etc. Stays relevant from a few days to a few months.
- Book-like content. Long texts. Stays relevant for years.
Different blockchains would have different incentive structures. Together they would serve all possible usecases and dominate the global social media usage.
But as long as we are on a one blockchain, maybe the easiest way is to allow users to pay a certain amount of steem or steem dollars to "activate" their old post to be eligible for receiving payouts again. This could be automated so that activation is made when the payout period is ending.
This way users could make money by promoting and resteeming their old articles when they become newsworthy or interesting in some way.
cool stuff :)
This could be done without permission, I suppose? Would require some sort of a payout escrow with a smart contract account acting as a third party (like @steemsports).
I think its a great idea if it can't be gamed somehow.
That's a brilliant idea and would reduce the amount of memory required (separate chains).