While the hardfork introduced faster payouts in a 12 hour cycle it also leads to an anomaly on the front page
The recent hardfork introduced faster payouts in a 12 hour cycle. The intention for this was that posts will be cycling more often. This leads to a higher fluctuation of posts and a more distributed payout. However, it was also introduced that posts can still be upvoted 30 days after their initial payout for a second round.
The New Front Page
An interesting anomaly is now forming on the front page as some posts have received plenty of votes post their initial pay out period. The most popular post is about Cheetah. The trending category is sorted by total value of the article before its payout. Cheetah has accumulated about 7.000$ and thus will likely keep being one of the top posts. Do not get me wrong I love Cheetah, but one month is quite a long time.
Should Authors continue to be on the Front Page after 12 hours?
The Good
On the one hand this allows posts which made little money initially to still have a chance to be rewarded at a later point. Being on the Front Page definitely helps - after all you might not be online within the 12 hour period in which a post is popular.
The Bad
Cheetah is still gaining traction and will likely accumulate a higher sum in a month than other posts can within 12 hours. If we extrapolate this data then the Front Page will soon be cluttered with a lots of older posts. This leaves less room for fresh content.
30 days ago Steem was worth 0.28$. Do you really want to see Posts on the Front Page from back then?
Bug or Feature
In my opinion we are achieving the opposite of what was originally intended with the recent hardfork - less fluctuation and fresh content. Just in case, I have created a bug report for this issue on GitHub to get an official response: :
