# Wellfare Check Algorithm

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**Category:** Community Building\
**Created:** [February 16, 2025, 8:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wellfare-check-algorithm/352596 "2025-02-16T20:44:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/bas/32/294929_2.png) [@Bas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Bas)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 8:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wellfare-check-algorithm/352596/3 "2025-02-17T08:46:12Z")

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I love how you care for your members 🤗

> [@TedJohnson](#):
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> **False Positives** : Some users may just take breaks; ensure the system doesn’t become intrusive.

I think this is what will break it in the end 😕  
If you channel all alerts to a single person/group, they will get overwhelmed _fast_.

Maybe people could have a dedicated “buddy” that gets alerted by the algorithm? That way the burder gets spread out over a larget group of people. And as a bonus, it’s a way to foster interpersonal relationships (I can imagine a lot of messages that will go something like “hey, thank you for checking, I was just on a cruise, it was magical, how are you doing?”).

You will most likely need some out-of-bounds communication channel set up when people opt-in. Because if the worst happens, a PM will likely be ignored by the caretaker. But a direct email might get their attention, a phone call would be even better.

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