Don't! There are many good effects.
For example: give wisdom! Several times I brought to ring the gong an old villager who had not enough skills (master in only 2 skills) and... Hop! He became Elder! the gong gave him 100% in a 3rd skill!

Yeh, wisdom is great from the Gong!

My favourte part of the game is ringing the gong and the events.

I also like ringing the gong because i like to have something bad happen and something bad to happen. I also love opening my games up and seeing my new island event.

I completed my game ages ago and I rarely ring the gong. I have found I get slightly more bad effects, and I have plenty of food and tech points, so there's no real reason to ring it except curiosity (I do occasionally succumb).

Give Wisdom , yeah!
Good ringing , Ginger,

do i semse a little sarcasm keza132? your very inspiratioal.

I like the gong, it's something fun to do, and it's a good way to gather all your villagers when u need to swap jobs.

i bang it and

i had a good run of good gong effects

I am testing a theory here ....

I rang the gong 4 times .... almost stopped at three because the third time it took health, and a pea-green fog made some of my nearby villagers sick. I ALWAYS train EVERYONE at least to trainee healer status by walking the newbies through the "strange plants" routine, so when that happened, I had healers running all over to heal those who were affected.

The first time, I had a EE ring it, and all of my tribe was pretty full on their health meters, so when I rang it, rainbows came out and the gong granted health.

The second time, I had a Master Scientist ring it and the gong granted wisdom.

The FOURTH time, I had a master healer ring it, and it granted health again.

What to note is .... THE LENGTH OF TIME BETWEEN RINGINGS ... I haven't rung it enough times, but I am thinking that if you let it fully charge and only ring it once in a while, not every night, you might get more positive results. Just a theory, but I rang it the very next night the third time .... and a week after for the fourth ... hmmmmm veerrrry interesting!!!