I actually leave my phone on silent the majority of the time for exactly this reason. I'm on it often enough, I will probably get the message shortly. And if I don't, then I was probably busy doing life-stuff. My students have the same issue- part of the reason they are on their phones all the time in class is because they have lights and vibration notifications. As soon as I make them put it in a backpack they usually don't pull it out again.
I don't receive as many tags or notifications as you do, I'm sure, so Ginabot is a useful tool for me. I also really like the ability to follow people specifically so that when they post I receive a notification- it gives me a lot of opportunities to manually read and upvote the people who are important to me
Hahaha, seems like we're like animals. Stimuli break our discipline, so we have to take the stimuli away instead of just blocking them out with our minds. Weak humans! :P