Gems, on the other hand, come along so rarely and are passed on between people as good content for so long that the 7-day billing period for such articles is a sin...
Yep, this is a real concern, as many posts don't have a 7-day lifespan and can keep/gain interest over time. This is currently a handicap when compared with what the social web2 has to offer.
Basically, I have an idea how to solve it, but I don't know what it looks like from a technical perspective... does the blockchain somehow record votes allocated after the settlement time or is it just a frontend?
Every vote is recorded within the blockchain through a
vote_operation
transaction, even those made after the 7-day window. You can see an example I just made here: https://blocks.blurtwallet.com/#/b/34837139The only difference lies in the value of the
Rshares
of the vote, as illustrated by the upvote I just gave to yourPost financing...
that is 10 days old: https://blocks.blurtwallet.com/#/@khrom-proposals/post-financing-blurt-promotion-proposal-2023-11-11-eng-pl. The value of theRshares
is0