I've arranged my workspace so that updates come to me without checking: MoR updates appear in my email, email in general has an icon on my taskbar, my RSS aggregator is on my taskbar, etc. The reward is thus entirely causally decoupled from behavior; I can never explicitly check at all, and still get the updates.

There are about four websites that I haven't been able to get RSS-based updates for (including my LW inbox), and I consider the need to manually check these a moderate inconvenience.