Steemians. Recently I caught myself, not voting on posts, after the first payout. Now I know this is wrong. So I thought, I should analyze why I behaved in this manner?
It turns out after the initial payout, even with the 30day later-on-payout, that this simply was, all that was, done. Currently, the 30day trending section is not being utilized. It simply does not show the communities values. And the rewards are also limiting the posts potential rank. For example, a life-saving post that garnered 10K$ would only be visible for 24-36H before becoming Nothing and no longer found. Unless you, somehow, remembered to make a bookmark.
My Proposal:
- Make the 30day Trending section less minimalistic and more "colorful." Have a post title written over the Featured Picture? If there aren't any, pictures, use the Steemit logo. Only after the 2nd payout, should a position of a post, lose ranking. In this Scenario, a 10k$ post would be higher than both the 24H and 30day trending section.
- Furthermore. Some users are not 365days a year on steemit, voting. And I furthermore would like the 30Day payout method to resemble this fact.
My case in point: author 
So: change how the 30days trending section works as well has how we calculate the 2nd payout.
Or could we just allow for say Half of the weight to be automatically added to a post for the second payout? So that a post:
1.Would have half of the first voter's weight after the first payout.( To be used for 2nd payout)
- Keep it's relative ranking weight in the 30day section
Also, make the 30day trending section more "beautiful." The idea is if we have a legendary post it would be legendary for more than 24h( minus the time it took to become legendary)