I notice the popularity of posts, how they get shared, and reach more people, is limited to the first 24-27 hours until a payout is issued. After that, the momentum is gone, and the popularity, trendiness, and reach drops drastically for those who are not noticed by those with a lot of Steem Power ("whales", "dolphins", etc.).

It makes posts revolve around popularity of a 24 hour period and who upvotes them based on their Steem Power to increase it's exposure. Also, those that do get popular through being upvoted by "whales", remain at the top of the trending and hot topics, while others are do not get exposure even if their content is valuable. Even if many people upvote for quality content, but a "whale" or high Steem Power user does not, then it's exposure is also not disseminated widely and it gets relegated to forgotten content.

This is a limited model whereby valuable content does not get disseminated after the payout. If something is good quality content, and only reaches a certain popularity due to the lack of upvotes from "whales", "dolphins", etc., it does not reach as many people in the long run and fades away to the recesses of the Steemit "history".

There is less incentive for people to keep voting for post-payout content because of the limited amount of upvotes you can issues per day without your upvotes being diluted to apply your Steem Power to more content and have their value-popularity increase. For content creators of quality material, they do not get a return on their material, which is what Steemit is supposed to be doing, to generate wealth for the content creators who provide valuable material for the community. Most of the wealth is disseminated to those who gain the most Steem Power upvotes.

If you start posting quality content that does not receive much attention, then in post-payout it remains out of popularity visibility for people to get. The desire for people to upvote older content is reduced, because of the reciprocal benefit to receive VESTING, SP or SBD is also reduced since it is post-payout and people have limitd amount of votes each day before their votes dilute power to popularize valuable content. The incentive is to upvote while the content still has a 24h payout legibility.

On Facebook, content can be shared immediately, become "viral", trendy, hot, or whatever, and continue for days and weeks. It can even be republished on FB long after and make a second coming.

I am not sure, but I think Steemit discourages this with its cheeta bots, as I posted content from my site for the first time on Steemit, and these bots come around saying the content already exists, as if it's a bad thing? I am not sure. It has stopped recently though.

A question:

Can you republish content later on that you already published, in order to get more people to be aware of your content and it reaching more people than it did the first time? Otherwise, your content does not generate value for you, it just stays in the "dustbin" of the Steemit history, while new content is what is focused on by users to upvote and generate value payout. Is there a way to reshare posts in the "created" / "new" section, but without getting payout, and merely focusing on getting your content to reach more people? Facebook allows this, and is good to get information to people, regardless of when it was posted on the site originally.

Thank you for any feedback you can provide.

Peace.