I hear you and I totally agree with this post 100%. Long-tail, timeless content is essential to the long-term growth of the platform.
I would love to be able to reap rewards for resurfacing old posts that got missed, and to get paid for stuff I write that brings traffic for years into the future.
FWIW, it was @ned that explicitly linked me to this post. We hear you and understand and will do our best to find a solution that works under the constraints we have.
Then how about address the two open issues on GitHub regarding the matter? People keep opening the issue back up because it's an issue. You guys keep thinking it's ok for a witness to run on a raspberry pi powered by a solar cell and unicorn farts.
Please check GitHub I opened one up the day you announced the 30 day limit and I had a dozen authors lined up to come over but the limit squelched that and the final word was that if someone wants long term rewards that this isn't the platform for it.
https://github.com/steemit/steem/issues/267
Notice that this eventually led to @theoreticalbits saying tldr moved to his personal blog.
Point is this keeps coming up. People serious about long-term monetization of content won't waste time here if it's not fixed. That's pretty much every author that @ghostwriter and myself know. And we do know a few.
I read your entry in Github. I think now there is a lot of buzz around this feature and they will find a way, somehow.
often content that is original can take such a long time to make. possibility of growing rewards mitigates that. and like mentioned reduces cross posting complete articles on other forums. also there are so mant old posts by people I often want to comment on and vote. People are always glad to receive comments, whether they wrote something today or two months previous doesnt matter
So. Much. This!
Especially the way things are now, a lot of people who would get their kick out of a lot of us write don't always see a post in the first 24 hours, and a lot of times not in 30 hours, either.
Thank you. I'm happy @ned and other people from Steemit HQ are listening. I've been involved in startups for more than 17 years and I know how hard it is, especially in the beginning, when there is complete chaos and you don't know which feature to implement first and how this will affect the unfolding of the whole thing. If I can be of any help for this effort, please let me know.