Gaming is maybe not the right word. Was mostly trying to give you some triggers for possible introspection from your side so that you can figure out if you want to take a break or not.
I'd be happy to see you take that bike trip by the way... would be something amazing to report on, and you might be able to use it as a ways to spread Satoshi's word ;)
when I see a notification, I zap them
For me, the temptation to zap them before I actually figured out what they wrote is worth is sometimes quite big... I try not to (but often fail), because otherwise, it'll just make the same people end up on the front page... but that's not necessarily what the algorithm rewards.