Originally posts would pay out a stake-weighted 24 hours after each vote. We are changing this to a stake-weighted 12 hours after each vote. The result of this change is to cause content on the “trending” page to rotate faster. Most content will still take over 24 hours to payout from the time it is posted.
No sir, You haven't taken the posts that get hot after the 12 hour period.
Take a look at these posts:
https://steemit.com/cn/@xiaohui/steemit-welcome-to-steemit-weixin-chat-group
https://steemit.com/translation/@deanliu/translation-and-how-we-tackle-it-affects-the-future-scenario-of-steeemit
https://steemit.com/cn/@somebody/the-cn-tag-now-is-top-4-why-cn-tag-4
https://steemit.com/steemit/@anyx/cheetah-bot-the-fight-against-spam-and-plagiarism-continues
This problem is especially prone in the cn section, because a lot of posts have been upvoted after the 12 hour period.
Not only do the authors have to wait a painfully long 1 month to get their payout, they also take up the trending page for A WHOLE MONTH till they get paid out.
My suggestion is that make the second payout as pending for 24 hours, then the third as 48 hours. After the third payout, there will be no more votes counted towards the payout.
This way, the maximum timeframe for a post to stay on trending is 84 hours. Much better than 1 month.