RE: Why Steemit post/replies per day is decreasing [My own case + Global Analysis]

[jonno-katz]

Thanks for the analysis. The Steem world moves quickly huh. I've been reading a lot about voting and the more I read the more it mystifies me. With this latest change and people debating this way and that I've decided that I'm just not qualified to have an opinion on it.
In terms of voting and payment there are 2 things I feel would make a better experience.

1. Being able to upvote/downvote as much as I want without it effecting me financially. I don't think it makes much difference for me as a minnow but I'm assuming it does for the whales. I think there's maybe an issue with trying to earn money vs voting for quality. I assume many people vote because they think something will be popular rather than liking it.

2. Posts having an expiration date. Currently payouts are at 24Hr and 1Month. Why not add payouts each year as well? I think I've written some interesting stuff that hasn't got much attention. I'd like to keep working, building networks, producing more content and hopefully getting better at what I do. It'd be great if people could discover minnows and then look back through their body of work, vote and earn money from that. I think it makes it so much harder for minnows to break through when they have so much pressure to find a whale's vote in the first 24 hours. It becomes complete luck. And if Steemit wants to uncover hidden gems then some will need time to be found. Maybe that would increase the quality of content as well.

Comments

[liondani]

Posts having an expiration date. Currently payouts are at 24Hr and 1Month. Why not add payouts each year as well?

The main reason is this:

@theoreticalbts commented 17 days ago

Anything related to payouts is consensus, so post objects have to be kept in memory as long as they could potentially be upvoted and paid out. The reason for the 30-day window is to allow old posts to be archived -- get them out of the database. Our memory usage is already getting uncomfortably large; requiring everyone to keep everything back to the beginning of time will be counterproductive.

https://github.com/steemit/steem/issues/267#issuecomment-240443565

But the good news is that probably @xeroc had a nice idea to overcome this problem and open the doors to older posts to get paid also !!!

From what I understand, the main motivation of limiting payouts to 30 days (max) is because those posts need to be kept in memory due to being part of consensus. Having an unlimited time would cause high memory requirements for full-nodes.

How about we re-introduce maintenance interval? What were the reasons to remove them to begin with?
With a maintenance interval (say every 4 weeks)

• We could still reward posts after several months
• We could allow nested comments with more than 6 levels (by saying that the recursion of depth 6 is considered in real-time, while the rest is considered only in the maintenance interval)

I am probably missing something but I felt the need to clarify that.

https://github.com/steemit/steem/issues/339

[jonno-katz]

Thanks for the reply lion. Perhaps we could just keep 5 of our posts that we could feature as part of a profile page? I guess it's a pretty massive amount of info to keep to the chain. What happens to our archived posts?

[ekitcho]

The problem in my opinion is that we need to encourage new users to Use Steemit,
but as we are calibrating and adapting several features, it's now quite hard to understand the meta game of Steem and how it actually works. Even 'old' members have some doubts about their voting power and how they should use it.

It impacts so much total average payout and people are discouraged to post because of these low rewards while other are auto voted by Bots. It will mostly create frustration

I think all these questions are being brainstormed everyday anyway
thanks for your contribution though