Since I've recently moved past 1 month being on Steemit, some of my earliest posts just started getting past their second payout period. Not that I expect to earn much from that, but because some of them are guides there is some discussion still going on with people mostly asking questions. The problem I see is that after the second payout discussion cannot continue as commenting gets locked, though I still see the Reply button, get a preview while writing and just when I hit the Post button I get unpleasantly surprised that I cannot add another comment. This probably needs to be fixed as people might get confused by making the Reply buttons inactive after the second payout.
So things go like this at the moment:
- You can edit your post before the first payout in 24 hours (or a little more)
- You can post comments under Blog posts that have not reached their second payout in 1 month
The Edit button gets removed when you are no longer able to use it, but the Reply one remains and is active, or at least get this idea when you click it and start writing until you get an error message as on the screenshot. This probably needs to be translated into a more human readable format, so the general public may also understand the meaning.
So what if you want to give your readers the option to continue commenting and asking questions or looking for some help after the 1 months payout under an article like a Steem mining guide for example. I guess the only reasonable thing is to repost the Blog post to allow for another month of discussion. This should not count as a spam or a thing that you should not be doing, especially when you note it is a repost or maybe note you are reposting with some updates, right?
That does not mean you should be reposting all of your old articles, but some might be worth updating and posting again, so that new users will be able to find them easily without having to dig too much. What is your opinion for reposting content in general and more specifically reposting after a month for posts that can be useful and helpful to new users?
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