With all the changes going on and discussion about the voting rules, I wanted to throw my 2 cents in about voting.
Voting should be open for at least a week, in order to include a whole weekend.
If you want this site to go mainstream, people with full time school\jobs should still be able to use and enjoy this site. Many people will only have time for this sort of thing on the weekends, and their articles, comments, and votes should matter too. By extending the voting period to 7 days minimum, everyone could be included and get at least 2 busy weekend days to gather rewards. This would also give people in every timezone a chance to see posts and vote\comment on it while it still matters to the reward system.
If the current 8.0 rules are adopted, only weekend posts will have a chance to make any money and conversation will be stifled. The weekdays will be light on good posts and comments because everyone will wait until primetime to post or comment. The people outside the US in different timezones will have to post at odd hours to get competitive rewards. This does not seem friendly for a mainstream or worldwide audience.
Think about the beneficial effects of encouraging discussion over a week instead of just 1-2 days.
Good content should be able to earn rewards after initial payouts
Stopping all rewards after the first payout is a mistake. People should be rewarded for leaving good content on the site so search engines can find it. A post-payout monthly upvote reward or even a direct tip button would allow good content to continue to be rewarded, keep the search engines referring people here, and give people an incentive to post and update useful resources. (Resources like how to guides, diy classes, calendars, web directories, etc...)
Which content would you rather reward?
- Reposting of the same info over and over, with hopes of harvesting some re-votes for rewards.
or - Posts and blog pages with current information that is kept up to date and can be used as a resource.
If you get no rewards for keeping good posts up after the initial week, the system will be encouraging reposts. Why not delete your best article, wait a month and repost it? Why not just post that funny picture every week on saturday morning? Why not just reorganize what you have posted before with a new clickbait title?
The proposed changes may help for bots, but they also add reasons for people to game the system too. Incentives to keep and update quality content need to be included, so this doesn't devolve into twitter.
Those are the 2 items that I think will make the most difference in return traffic. Giving working people a chance to be rewarded and contribute, and giving good content a reason to stay on the site.
That's my 2 cents, what are yours?
I agree with your sentiment about taking in to account timezones. If there isn't an even distribition of SteemPower across the globe then those people furthest away from the richest locales don't have the same incentives (or rewards) to post.
My understanding is that Curation Rewards (to late voters) would not be paid out after the first payout.
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My assumption is that Author Rewards would still be paid. Maybe there needs to be clarification, i.e. does this mean
Or
I would have thought the former would be the case. So latecomers contribute to the new pot but do not get any dividends.
Yes, more clarification would be helpful.
Hopefully it's your second assumption, that authors continue to get rewards for good content.
I absolutely agree with both of your points.
Sort of like on a website... If you write up a good article with good SEO, people should still be able to retroactively upvote it and the content creator should still get a reward of some sort.
I completely agree with you, a time limit would be a serious barrier for Steemit's development