The need for a story-chain function on Steemit

There are loads of awesome, and I mean awesome, contributions on steemit, but I notice that apart from the comments section, you can't respond or build on the ideas within. This is especially problematic because of the imposed 7 day half-life given to each story under the Steemit rules. I am not complaining about this, to the contrary. However it seems that a lot of really great material gets buried under the weight of new material coming up behind.

I just watched a video featuring @zurvanic talking about coming improvements to Steemit including the new communities which are being planned (among other things). He was chatting with @bitcoinmeister. Their discussion made me want to re-pitch this idea, because I think it has legs and I really want to see it, or at least the functionality it will provide, be adopted here on our favourite social media platform.

My growth idea to help steemit along the way is simple: introduce the ability to tie (or chain) stories to each other (maybe call it an ideas-chain? ideas-knot?). This would allow for more developed thinking along a line of argument - perhaps even introducing a 'call-and-response' type relationship between steemers (?) whereby the original pieces could be tracked back to through the chain, allowing for a more coherent stream of ideas and collaborations than is now available through the comment section alone.

It could be peer-peer, or a single steemer could write a series of connected pieces, without needing to c&p the links back to each of the sources.

I can imagine this becoming a really powerful innovation over time that would enable steemit to become not just a blog site, but a creative knowledge bank.

If you like the idea, lets get behind it and make it happen! Please re-steemit!

Cryptotech is quickly becoming a bit of an obsession for me, inspiring me creatively in a way I seriously didn't see coming. I'd be really happy to engage in the big ideas playing in the creativetech background, and I'd love to engage with your ideas. To see where I'm coming from, check out my first steemit piece, 'What if the future arrived and we didn't notice' on https://steemit.com/@drwom