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Originally Posted by Wormius
It’s still that dense argument that the alert is intended to wake people up to go and search. Every critique on the internet is, “are they expecting me to put in my pajamas at 2am to go and search?”. No, it’s not to get you to wake up and go join a search party, you smeghead. It’s to get the message out to people who might have information.
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But I think she makes a valid argument and proposal, whereby there should be different tiers of notifications as there are in the US. Having one class of alerts for emergencies (she uses tornado example, but flooding, forest fires are more common here) where you want everyone and their dog awake and getting to safety.
She argues having the same tone and notifications for Amber alerts will only result in people starting to ignore them, when ultimately, they could eventually be ignoring a flood or forest fire that could cost lives. I think its a valid argument, and whether the answer is having different tone, ignoring options, Do-not-disturb ignoring, etc, whatever, there are valid improvements that can be made to ensure those that are awake are still getting the notification immediately while mitigating unintended consequences.