I imagine they have plenty of data to know when zaps essentially drop to zero. It might even be as little as a week, but the reward could gradually grow overtime.

Yes. I thought of late zapping too. Maybe once a post is over a month old? 

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This territory is highlighting a few valuable features for SN to add. In addition to subterritories and perpetual editing, posts like book reviews would really benefit from putting more emphasis on evergreenness.

I floated the idea past k00b to make "late zapping" heavily rewarded in a similar way to how "early zapping" is rewarded. I'm not sure that's quite right, but we want people to have an incentive to continue zapping these posts as they age.

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This territory is highlighting a few valuable features for SN to add. In addition to subterritories and perpetual editing, posts like book reviews would really benefit from putting more emphasis on evergreenness.

I floated the idea past k00b to make "late zapping" heavily rewarded in a similar way to how "early zapping" is rewarded. I'm not sure that's quite right, but we want people to have an incentive to continue zapping these posts as they age.