I probably wouldn't have started with a month long experiment, but I was talking about experimenting with the rewards timing just a few days ago. There are potential incentive issues with a daily rewards schedule. I was proposing layering weekly rewards on top of the daily.

Undisciplined

You can still make educated gaming guesses, even if it's not exact. More to the point, the whole idea accomplishes nothing and could harm the community. What is the point? Experimenting just for the sake of experimenting? 

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cryotosensei

But you're missing that you get credit for zapping quality content too. Remember that it's extremely non-linear. If you zap the person ahead of you enough to move up from 2nd to 1st in post zapping, it could more than offset the additional reward the person ahead of you gets because you zapped him.

I don't think they're letting us see the granular rankings: i.e. 3rd in comment zapping. That should cut down on attempting to game the rankings, it will certainly cut down on the effectiveness of gaming the rankings.