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Originally Posted by Ducay
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.
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If there is a separate tone, isn’t that going to lead people to ignore them? That doesn’t seem to work in the best interest of the Amber Alert.
Still, people keep different hours. The alert that came out on that Friday or Saturday night shouldn’t haven’t bothered anybody, but it did. Why? Because people are just fickle. You will probably have shift workers going off about getting an alert at 2PM.