User blog comment:Refreshing Demise/Surge of Popularity Down, and Admins Absent From Duty/@comment-4332975-20140222122055

I've never claimed to be the most active person, but I do make it a point to at least check in, and to get a little work done when I do. To be honest, I think that a lot of the staff we have are the same way. Ideally, we shouldn't need to be policing things around the clock, and occasional check-ins should be enough. Sometimes, that doesn't work out, though.

What I will say is this: Really, messaging admins individually isn't the best system to begin with. Short of knowing that a specific admin is on at a given moment, it's not the best way to get a response. People have to sleep, to eat, and to otherwise live their lives. Things happen, like Nights having to take time off to do the responsible thing and go be a parent. Personally, I think what we really need is some kind of centralized message system that all admins can monitor, to ensure that no matter who is on, someone reads it, because otherwise the day will come, I guarantee it, when an "active" staffer isn't there to receive a message, and an "inactive" one was, but misses it. It may even have happened already.