It’s “absent without official leave”, meaning they don’t have permission from the chain of command to be absent from their post (which is literally just wherever they are supposed to be).
It’s not a matter of saying you’ll be gone and when you’ll be back, it’s a matter of having official permission to be away from your duties at all. They won’t get you for it for being off-base in your free time, but if you are off-base on THEIR time, then you are AWOL. You can also be AWOL without actually going anywhere, like if you are sick and stay in bed without contacting your superior, or medical for a chit, very likely considered AWOL.
Going AWOL is often a court-martial offense, and often results in a dishonorable discharge, which is right up there with a felony conviction insofar as the impact on your life long term is concerned.
The sheer risk of running NSFW servers in this post-OSA timeline, I wouldn’t be surprised if they just homer-simpson’d into the bushes, and waited for it to all be over.
He was the admin of feddit.de. I think he went on a work trip to SE Asia and was never seen again. First technical problems troubled the instance until nobody paid for the server and domain anymore. Now the new feddit.org is governed by a non-profit with multiple admins.
Admin that had access to the server went AWOL in October and now the server has died.
What means the Term “AWOL”?
Absent with-out leave
AFKWOL
It’s “absent without official leave”, meaning they don’t have permission from the chain of command to be absent from their post (which is literally just wherever they are supposed to be).
It’s not a matter of saying you’ll be gone and when you’ll be back, it’s a matter of having official permission to be away from your duties at all. They won’t get you for it for being off-base in your free time, but if you are off-base on THEIR time, then you are AWOL. You can also be AWOL without actually going anywhere, like if you are sick and stay in bed without contacting your superior, or medical for a chit, very likely considered AWOL.
Going AWOL is often a court-martial offense, and often results in a dishonorable discharge, which is right up there with a felony conviction insofar as the impact on your life long term is concerned.
Ey, that makes even more sense :) thanks!
I was assuming “AlWays OnLine”
This clears up some confusion
Absent Without Official Leave
The sheer risk of running NSFW servers in this post-OSA timeline, I wouldn’t be surprised if they just homer-simpson’d into the bushes, and waited for it to all be over.
If I had a nickel for every Lemmy admin of a big instance who went missing I would have two nickels.
Which isnt a lot but its weird its happened twice.
What isn’t a lot but it’s weird it’s happened twice
Admins going missing and their instance disappearing
Weird
twice
happened
it
What is the other admin that went MIA?
@wintermute@feddit.de
He was the admin of feddit.de. I think he went on a work trip to SE Asia and was never seen again. First technical problems troubled the instance until nobody paid for the server and domain anymore. Now the new feddit.org is governed by a non-profit with multiple admins.
Next the domain name will be for sale for like $2500. lmao
Hexbear flashbacks
I did some rough math on this and that would be the least of the worries. The cost of hosting a nsfw instance would easily be $500-$1000 per month.
Which leaves me wondering if part of it going down was funding.
I didn’t know this.