Very interesting comment 👍

Liking what you like gets you the same return as liking what you're guessing should be popular

I think this is the key we need to work on in order to remove the doubt "is it profitable to vote for this post"?

Perhaps the freed up processing overhead could be used to making the actual 1 week payout window longer or indefinite

Indefinite isn't possible due to the need of rewards calculation and I'm not sure that the savings will be enough to make it longerwithout the need to create more token per day (which is already very high)

Of course, this would be ideal (not all posts are ephemeral news whose content loses value over time) and it would prevent the infantilization of users by some frontends that block votes on posts/comments after 7 days (we are the only social network to forbid voting by an expiration date).