That's the equivalent of software monitoring alerts that engineers can't do anything to fix. Alert! A new user has joined. Alert! A user has logged in 47

That's the equivalent of software monitoring alerts that engineers can't do anything to fix. Alert! A new user has joined. Alert! A user has logged in 47,000 times in the last minute The second gets ignored because of the flood of the first kind of message. It's called Attention Fatigue and policies often don't take the effect seriously enough. Better would be a warning with relative danger. Something like a how-cooked-is-your-goose measure: rare, mid-rare, medium, medium-well, well done, charcoal.