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These are obviously complete trash. Waking people up in the middle of the night for some random child that was abducted half a Belgium away with no real call to
by 3pt14159 4y ago
These are obviously complete trash. Waking people up in the middle of the night for some random child that was abducted half a Belgium away with no real call to action even if it were in the same very small town.
What we need is political pressure for a pay-to-play solution. You fire an alert at my phone, that's $100 deposited within a week against my phone bill or offered via mail for the pay-as-you-go burner phone types.
Then if the phone goes off I know its something real. Right now it's just a waste of resources and annoyance, probably killing more people than it is saving via sleepy or distracted drivers or medical professionals.
- daveguy 4y agoYour solution is, "give me $100 every time a child goes missing?" Did I get that right?
- tdub311 4y agoI believe its more "don't send me an amber alert every time a child goes missing". But on the other hand it's possible to turn them off so maybe not.
- phpnode 4y agoit's a modest proposal, but I'm worried about what this would incentivise
- _Algernon_ 4y agoI'm more worried about what the current system incentivises.
- nathanaldensr 4y agoI believe GP intended the $100 to be a disincentive to spam people's phones with alerts that can't reasonably be acted upon.