In the original Steem white paper it said that "long tail content" would be able to get votes and earn money over time.
However, the current voting rules only allow votes on content that is less than 7 days old. This means that less popular "long tail" content will never get seen in time for the votes to matter.
The solution to this is to change the rules so that all votes on any content get rewarded, regardless of how old the article is. This would bring Steem back inline with the original white paper.
I do wonder what would happen if rewards extended beyond 7 days. And what the intention of restricting to 7 days actually is... Any insights?
And may I ask for the favour of a resteem? That would be awesome
It's to encourage the continual production of new content. Otherwise, right now we'd be complaining that the whales can post once and make money for the rest of their lives while the rest of us still aren't making anything.
7 days is fine. What we need are better search categories that allow viewers to find content that is not always at the top. Sort by Word Count, Image-Heavy or Sort by Reputation - Ascending Order; any of those would help.
Either way, it Is what it is. Learn the system as is and work with it, we shall still succeed.