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RE: So we can't resteem an old (past payout) post?!!!!
I don't get this 7days limitation for payouts? Why do we have that?
Also, I agree with you. Limitation on resteem is affecting users. Most of people which came from Twitter or Facebook will be confused with this limitation. It will drive them off. Among other things which are social component of the platform but different than what people can find on other most known social networks.
The limitation is there to stop old popular content to keep getting money forever. Before there were two periods: one payout after 7 days and one after 30 days.
Steem has a lot of rules that are way different than twitter or facebook. I don't think that what will drive off people. It is more about the way the platform is use, the fact that people read less content while wanting to be read more. I thik there is a very low user engagement here.
Right now I'm pretty new here, I browsed Steem for a few days, and only after those few days I discover 'resteem', then that I cannot do it, then the limit, then got infuriated by its apparent silliness, then I read your explanation and it makes perfect sense.. No millions of points for Doge picture or RainbowCat etc just because they keep popping up from the history.
However, 7 days seem very harsh. Previous 7/30 sounds better to me (I'm a slow writer.. when I write something on my old site, people tend to notice it after a month or two maybe..), but probably there was some important reason why that was changed..
Anyways - many thanks for the explanation. This should be clearly indicated on Steem tutorials!
Well good luck around here. The documentation misses a lot of things so you might need to dig a lot to get answers.
Anyway welcome here :-)