Quick Question ..
While perusing the daily posts, have you ever come across a very good piece of work, but because it has already been a day or more in circulation you chose not to upvote it, as there would be no resulting curation reward? I have to say that I do this many times per day! If I were STEEMPower rich I would not hesitate, but the vast majority of us are very motivated by curation rewards.
Days Instead of Hours
I am not certain how this would impact the economy, but I do know that when authoring a STEEMIT post, people are very mindful of the 24 hours that they have to "make a splash" with it. If potentially very helpful curators are are not around at that particular time of day, or all day for that matter, these posts go "plunk!", straight to the bottom of the pool. Worse than not receiving much in the way of reward, many of these excellent posts go entirely unread!
More Time == Higher-Quality Work & Worth-while Curation
If people believe that they have days to attract attention, to promote to engage in the attached discussions, and so on, I believe people will spend more time on the articles themselves. Also, curators, instead of rapid-firing away, upvoting material based on the author's name alone, a long list of which they have on automatic, via bots and voting sites .. rather than this, I believe they would take the time to pass qualified judgments about each piece of work being done, on a post-by-post basis, not simply because it was written by a particular, profitable individual.
This will greatly boost STEEMIT's reputation as a source of high-quality, properly-judged content!
In brief ..
- Authors will have a greater opportunity to be read and receive reward.
- Curators will have more time in which they can find truly deserving posts!
- Curation Rewards could be dealt with in the same way that STEEM Dollar to STEEM conversion is currently -base it on a weekly moving average. Actually I have no clue if that is possible or beneficial, just throwing it out there for discussion! :)
- When a post receives support potential readers will trust that it has been properly evaluated and not something that people upvoted based purely on the compressed momentum created by those in search of curation rewards.
