this becomes scary for the signature participants only
This particular time-out lasted for a couple of hours. Not more than 2 hours even, how's that going to affect signature participant? Two hours of interruption won't stop you from making any amount of post you want and it also won't make you miss a deadline.
This frequent scenario in the website is affecting businesses in the forum. I don't know how many millions or billions are lost whenever the forum is down.
What business on the forum will make people lose millions, talk more of billions within hours of the site being down?