I agree with @markmorrisjr @stellabelle @sunjata @johnsmith @akareyon.
I think it's extremely important to find a way to make posts, comments & payouts timeless, because good content is timeless. SEO is slow so I imagine some of these posts are going to draw backlinks, major new traffic and new users. Type II content is incredibly important for long term sustainability and engagement and probably more important than Type I content. Recency is mainly important for news and discussion on recent events, but we don't have that much of that. We're also going to have too much recycling if we focus on Type I content.
Conclusion: Finding some way to continue long-term discussions and reward long-term content is crucial.
BTW to decrease load on the blockchain, can we somehow allow users to click a button to 'repost' specific blog posts to keep it alive. It will just be entered back into consideration for voting each month. We don't have to have it show up in 'New' and if desired you can have a 'Repost' category. Maybe have a 2 post per day limit for 'reposts' ... seems like a simple solution?
Allow reposting blogs - yes please !