What a mine of information you are! Thanks for straightening this out. And for the other historical points of interest. A 24-hour window! Hardly an incentive to quality.
When I included this comment in my post, I thought someone was going to point out a good reason for having the 7-day upvote window, but so far no one has!
And you're right about not catching those late comments – I regularly check "replies" and I've noticed that at least one reply made to a reply that I made on someone's post was not included in my Replies. Maybe it's because the person did not reply directly to my comment, although the comment was meant for me. Luckily I found it anyway.
Sad to hear you get writing stolen from your website. I've built a website where I post almost all of the content I post on Steemit. I built the website in the hope that it would give those Steemit posts a longer life. I think in the long term, websites will be great for promoting Steemit, especially if they're as good as steemstem.io.