I've been on Steemit about three weeks now - I've earned just under 60 steem, all from rewards and power up; my upvotes are finally worth $.02; and I just hit the 50-reputation mark. Hell, I even bought my first bitcoin last night! (A very small amount.) So, yeah, I'm feeling pretty salty.
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I've also been learning a lot - about steemit, and about blockchain/cryptocurrency in general. So far it's been a lot of fun and quite illuminating.
One thing I'm wondering about: permanence. I understand that all posts are permanent in steemit's blockchain (and the blockchain therefore grows wildly every day). But how do users efficiently access that permanence? Is there currently a way to find the best, most valuable older content? (I see the search function, but it's kind of hit or miss).
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Since I'm posting a lot of comic pages here, I'm wondering how/if anyone will be able to find them six months down the road without me posting a link. My own content aside, tutorials on how things work here are especially important for newbies. But doing a search can land on a two-year-old post with outdated information, or maybe nothing comes up at all.
I guess I'm wondering if there's a way to distinguish certain posts: a lot of what we post here is ephemeral in nature - it's news that will change tomorrow, or it's updates leading toward some future goal. But is there, or will there be, a way to mark certain content that is easily found later? And is dTube any different in this respect?
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Let me put it another way: the thing that excites me about steemit is the ability and promise to be rewarded for content creation. But the best content lasts - it's the movie you watch 10 times, or the album you play over and over. So, while I'm so far impressed and excited by what steemit is - and I can see how/why putting a one-week limit on rewards/payouts makes sense - I'm wondering how we move to a system where content is rewarded on a more permanent basis? I think it's that kind of system that will be the true disruptor in media.
Thanks for reading - and thanks so much to everyone who has helped me in these last three weeks!