I think the point is only especially relevant for the fortunate (or unfortunate
) admin who spends oodles of time here .... like I used to
Give you an example (though not really from personal experience since I never hid my online status either): first thing in the morning, just out of bed, cuppa tea in hand and online to have a wee peek before the day starts. Can I be 'on duty' so to speak?
Probably it's better if I'm not
If during such a time I then got a PM about something urgent (never really happened btw) I would (theoretically) have responded something to the effect: sorry, just waking up. Will be on it tough in an hour (or so) and will let you know.
A smilar scenario might happen late at night.
Yes, that's what I was thinking of about telling people you are now admining. In the early morning situation, you ARE admining, just doing a brief check, you would respond if there was an emergency, but you don't plan to keep admining for an hour at that point. So, notifying someone that you are now "on duty" wouldn't make sense.
That's what I thought of when I spoke of mixing normal posting and admining: the way I imagine it, is that you might be off and on for ten minutes here and ten minutes there - not sitting down for one or two hours and do today's admining all in one go - so you couldn't really say when you are on duty.
Hmmh, point number five seems to me to be prompted by the discussion we had when it seemed that TORC would punish people
on TORC for what they wrote elsewhere. It says
5. Please do not try to influence the behavior of our posters on other boards, either by discouraging them from posting or encouraging them to post certain things, or by telling them that what they do on other boards will have consequences for them on B77.
Also, I think partly this point might have been prompted by fears that admins could either intimate to members that posting elsewhere would be frowned upon here, or that, conversely, they could provoke posters to spam or otherwise post negatively on other boards.
However, I think it's a valid objection that this rule also prevents admins from trying to stop people from doing just that.
And I'm wondering why there is no point No. 6?