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I think many of us know this,
As soon as you have finished your post on which you may have worked for hours and you send him out into the Steem, his lifetime allready starts to run away. For  many, especially new Steemians, the first few hours often seem to be the most important, because they show how "mass acceptance"  of your article.Â
Posts voted in the first few minutes are more likely to generate attention. Whether your contribution has overcome this hurdle or not, the next countdown has started allready. Older contributions have much lower chances to get viewed because of the mass of new posts.
Why is that so?
The  7 days that a contribution has to be voted by others makes only in one hand sence, because it motivates us to write new contributions and force us to remain active. Similar to the VOTINGPOWER system, in which our Steem is locked away for a period of 13 weeks, this time limit, probably works as a self-preservation for the Steemit Blockchain.
But what if there was no voting-time-limit ?
I have been asking myself this question for quite some time. Since new protocols like Dtube, Dmania, Dsound, Utopian.io, Busy.org started, our community grows exponentially. Nowadays the actual voting-time-limit seems contraproductive to me. It seems to me that the time limit promotes quantity rather than quality.
Quickly finish a mail, so there will be a payout in a week. What do I write? ... no matter, it needs to beeing viewed and upvoted, in a week nobody remembers it anyway.
I imagine some Steemians working like this everyday  xDÂ
They have learned to take advantage of the platform for themselves. But most likely new Steemians, who swim still lonely through the Steem, Â and do not have any faithful upvoters to support them on a regular basis, will suffer from this.Â
We tell them, post always high quality contributions and that regularly, then you will be upvoted... But they only have this one week, and often even less than this, just a few hours, until their post disappears in Walhalla and they loose their sorce of STEEMPOWER. The System force them to make a new contribution but with time this can get very frustrating!
The blockchain is timeless.
What's on the blockchain stays on the blockchain.Â
And that forever ... well until a global power failure shuts down every single device^^Â
Should this timeless property not being implemented in our daily use of Steemit?Â
There are very helpful posts that are over one year old, have 10 thousands  views and represents a great value for Steemit and the community. However, not for the author, because he already recived his votes and every further new vote has no effect!
This is why its worth beeing able to vote for old contributions!
After much consideration, I came to a possibility in which it makes sense to continue voting on older contributions. All upvotes after this one week will go 100% into  STEEMPOWER.Â
Why? ..simple, this would continue to reward the authors of old posts with influence on Steemit, which is especially important for new Steemians! Nevertheless, Â we are still motivated to write new posts for SBD, our blue money, Â which we can sell at good conditions at any time, without the need to touch our Steem.Â
Furthermore, our blockchain would also benefit from this Steem stored as STEEMPOWER. Because  STEEMPOWER not only means voting power for us, but is also a kind of a backup /  security for the continued existence of the blockchain.
Steemit also needs a search function!
A search function, which can use to sort the contributions by  topics, creation date, number of viewers, etc., would pay tribute to old contributions as well!
I would be very interested in what you say, do my thoughts make sense? Do I see something wrong, or did I ignore something important in my consideration?Â
Let us help make this platform more productive and  fairer! I would be glad if we could discuss this topic in the comments.