gonna repost something Jae told me in a comment and that is: the best way to make things easy on staff and keep their workload down is to block people who are bothering you, and if this is not something that can fix the problem and it isn't an emergency, save it for business hours
this seems like the nice thing to do imo. no discourse over the weekend. they are around for emergencies, but if there's not something nasty actively going down it can probably wait
even if you violently disagree with them on fundamental matters they still deserve a weekend away from work
edit: see jae's post elaborating, and a-strange-cat's timezone conversions, here
keep in mind - while cohost has staff who are paid to do this, many other Websites run by chosters in the diaspora are going to be volunteer affairs. while they may have more people, the experience in the seat of a (1 (one)) moderator is going to vary quite a bit, and it's not quite an additive or multiplicative affair - more mods doesn't always mean more better.
teams can do their best to delegate and assuage the command of responsibility through numbers, but sometimes you will have one person whose job it is to flush the queue, and on the other end, someone who's convinced that there's a catastrophic, world-ending affair taking place on their feed, or a raid, or someone being flag-bombed1, and a lot of people do not have the time, patience or temper to triage and work through it.
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maliciously reported by way of an organized flood/raid to amplify the apparent power of a report. (do read that linked post if you're expecting to run, support or manage a community or its platform and tooling online)
