RE: Timeless Content versus Timely Content - Or How Steemit Can Lock Itself Out Of Business In One Easy Step
Thanks for sounding the alarm on this. I am concerned about these aspects of Steemit as well. I worry about what happens if the image hosting service I'm using goes out of business and I have to migrate all the images for my posts to a new service. If I can't edit my really old posts to change the image links, such an event would effectively ruin all my posts. And I value my old posts. I look at my overall blog as a resume of sorts; someone viewing my profile might skim over my list of old posts to see what kind of content I write and decide if I'm worthy of being followed. So being able to always edit posts is quite important, as is being able to see the history of edits which should be easy given the nature of blockchain based storage.
Also, I want to be able to vote on old posts and still get a curation reward for it. The way it is now, I have no particular incentive to vote on posts which are past their initial payment period (other than altruistically wanting to be nice to the authors). It's sad that even the best, most craftily written posts only get a brief 15 minutes of fame before being consigned to the dustbin of blockchain history. Let them live on forever, in the same way that well written books can effectively generate lifetime royalties for their authors!
Thanks for the support. I host all the images on one of my servers, but I understand that this may not be the case for everybody and I confess I didn't even think at this, until you brought it up and yes, it's a valid concern. There are people who rely entirely on images for their presence here on Steem it (art, photography, quilling, etc) and they can be easily "erased" by not being able to edit their image links.
You're welcome. In fact, I consider this point to be so important that I've gone ahead and resteemed your post. Here's hoping The Powers That Be see this and take it under consideration.
That's two very good points. I did not think of the image hosting aspect. That scenario would not be fun. And as for the 30 day payout. Yup, it also buts a drag on the sharing of content.
Ex. I had a follower re-steem one of my 30+ day old posts and it picked up a chunk of fresh upvotes, but since it doesn't pay anything he said he would only resteem less than 30 day content going forward. That's less sharing of my content now.
That happened to me! Imgur lost my pics right after they disabled edit and delete. Now my event calendar is out of date and I cannot add to it, my blog landing page has broken links, and my product-reviews have broken images. I can't fix or delete any of them.
It's sad to watch such a good idea get ruined in less than 3 months.