User blog comment:Alemas2005/Administrator Performance Ratings - Two Years-2 months Later (with non-RfA Admins)/@comment-5052737-20160220222936/@comment-5052737-20160221155310

Skul, M.I.A. often doesn't mean much, the user can still be "present" even if they're marked as away. Better to be completely offline from chat than being M.I.A., because for me, at least, the answer to the question "is she really there?" is way clearer, and also doesn't give false hope.