For all users who have been present on Steemit, they must be aware about the 7-day limitation of receiving upvotes and earning from it. Unfortunately, once this week's time is gone, the post loses its value all-of-a-sudden and no more eyeballs to get visibility. No matter how effective and great you might have written, after this 7-day cycle, people will lose interest in the post for sure. But not anymore, meet Steem Forever.
A Brief Overview
Steem Forever has been built with a single thought in mind- keep earning forever from the post, without any limitations. Steem Forever is a simple web-based service by the creators of Steem Bounty, which provides users with a simple and easy to use interface to create a perma-link to a steemit post and vote on it forever.
Steem Forever, Under the Hood
How Steem Forever achieves this is pretty straightforward. When a person creates a steem-bounty URL out of a normal steemit or busy URL, the Steem Bounty platform intelligently checks the age of post and in case it exceeds the 7-day lifespan, it creates a comment on the same post. Hence, any new upvotes done on this new Steem Bounty URL actually go as UpVotes to the comment, hence opening another 7-day post channel. And this doesn't end here. Everytime it sees a comment has surpassed the week's time, it creates another comment and performs the upvote.
Finally, at the end of 7-day lifecycle of such comments, the money is rendered out to original author of the post, with a minor cut going to steem-bounty for facilitating this service.
How to Start?
Using Steem Forever is easy. Just head over to the landing page of Steem Forever and create your steem forever URL from the super simple text bar. The page provides quite a lot of helpful information to understand how to use the service.
Finally, support Steem Bounty by voting for their Witness. Voting is easy, just follow either of the below 2 approaches:
Option 1:
In order to do so you can go to: https://steemit.com/~witnesses
And enter the "steem-bounty" account into the text field and click vote.
Option 2:
Use steem-connect to vote directly for the Steem Bounty witness.