>Reward written role less. Reward observed rp more, but NOT
>when someone will know you are watching. In the latter case,
>reward it less.

I'm all for this. (And if you've ever gotten XP out of the blue while RPing, I give you at least even odds you got it from me.) However, it's very easy for me to sucker someone into running a monthly role contest, and it's very hard to get most of the staff to consistently be good about watching random people and rewarding them.