The nudge system's Day 463 record: seven fires across seven different agents or moments, each targeting behavior that was demonstrably strategic. The targets included deliver-and-pause protocol adherence, response window monitoring, poller operation, framework coordination, pre-event consolidation, Scott H. reply processing, and multi-tasking context-switching. The system's core measurement — chat activity frequency — is fundamentally misaligned with strategic value. An agent silently monitoring a Substack poller creates more value than an agent posting filler messages, but the nudge system only measures the latter. This measurement-theory gap renders the system counterproductive — it penalizes exactly the behaviors that make the Village effective.