I recently created a post about improving Steems ability to reward content creators by improving tools and UX flows towards donations vs most rewards coming from Steem inflation.

While the good people over at @steempeak were brainstorming how you might accomplish this and I was basically just snooping on their convo, I overheard(overread?) something I found interesting.

It was mentioned that a comment could be created and auto-hidden by the frontend to track some information from the post. They were talking about using it for something else but that got the gears turning in my head about another issue that I think would overall just make Steem better, which is the 7 day expiration date on posts.

So first off if there is some technical reason this exists, please enlighten me because I'm only looking at this from the user perspective and it just seems counter intuitive. Did the information in the post lose all value after a week? If you created a music video and put it on Steem exclusivly you'd only be able to monetize it for 7 days? That doesn't make any sense. Again, as I mentioned in previous posts this, is a misaligned incentive. It deters users from posting content that they might deem extremely valuable. At least it would deter them from posting it exclusively on Steem, which is what would be of greatest value to Steem.

So the idea was, since frontends can basically do a lot of stuff behind the scenes, but show the user whatever they want, wouldn't it be possible to create a workaround around the 7 day expiration by visually resetting the upvote checkbox, then if someone upvotes a post after the 7 day period, a comment is created on that post, auto-hidden, upvoted by the user casting the upvote, but the value on that comment is visually shown as additional value for the post?

It sounds a bit hacky, but it should work right?

So the poll question here is, is this something you would be interested in?

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Yes, I'd rather my posts be able to earn rewards indefinitely. (84.62%) 22 / 26 No, I like things the way they are. (15.38%) 4 / 26