# Alert Admin/Mod when a Topic or Post is Flagged

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/alert-admin-mod-when-a-topic-or-post-is-flagged/85225
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [April 13, 2018, 9:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/alert-admin-mod-when-a-topic-or-post-is-flagged/85225 "2018-04-13T09:09:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![Curtis\_Kephart](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/curtis_kephart/32/89070_2.png) [@Curtis\_Kephart](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Curtis_Kephart)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2018, 9:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/alert-admin-mod-when-a-topic-or-post-is-flagged/85225/1 "2018-04-13T09:09:20Z")

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I am an admin on a discourse forum and I’d love to get mobile (and email) notifications pushed as content is flagged. The discussion linked below suggests this should be straightforward by now via the mobile app, but it’s not clear to me how to set this up in my notifications settings or admin settings.

Curious if you could point me to the right settings or documentation?

> [@Alert moderators when posts are flagged and increase amount of alerts](https://meta.discourse.org/t/alert-moderators-when-posts-are-flagged-and-increase-amount-of-alerts/47679):
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> I’ve been using the excellent push notifications plugin for a while and would like to see the underlying desktop notifications extended and simplified to make it even more useful. Apparently you only get notifications of new posts and not likes. I find it unnecessarily confusing that there are two different different notifications systems. It would be much simpler for all the site notifications to create a desktop (and push) notifications as well. Even better if you could choose the type of not…

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2018, 7:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/alert-admin-mod-when-a-topic-or-post-is-flagged/85225/2 "2018-10-05T07:06:10Z")

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You’d need to be both admin and moderator on the target site – is that the case? Admins don’t generally get notified about day-to-day operational issues on a Discourse site, the assumption being that admins are only there for setup and maintenance.

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### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2021, 8:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/alert-admin-mod-when-a-topic-or-post-is-flagged/85225/3 "2021-06-22T08:06:53Z")

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### Author: ![Fred\_Alberti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/fred_alberti/32/443977_2.png) [@Fred\_Alberti](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Fred_Alberti)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2024, 5:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/alert-admin-mod-when-a-topic-or-post-is-flagged/85225/4 "2024-08-26T17:02:23Z")

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I’m both… how do I get an email notification?