# Confusing workflow around moderator notifications

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/confusing-workflow-around-moderator-notifications/106047
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [January 9, 2019, 10:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/confusing-workflow-around-moderator-notifications/106047 "2019-01-09T10:40:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![dictoon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/dictoon/32/47968_2.png) [@dictoon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dictoon)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2019, 10:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/confusing-workflow-around-moderator-notifications/106047/1 "2019-01-09T10:40:30Z")

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Here is something that I end up doing several times a week:

 ![discourse-notifications](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/f/a/fac770bcdad1f4c59324b72c2fa7989f901721db.gif)

If you count, that’s four clicks and three pages visited, for always the same outcome:

```
There are no posts to review.

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I am _sure_ there are perfectly logical reasons why this is (they aren’t clear to me), but purely from a user’s point of view, it doesn’t look right.

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### Author: ![dax](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/dax/32/244677_2.png) [@dax](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dax)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2019, 11:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/confusing-workflow-around-moderator-notifications/106047/2 "2019-01-09T11:01:21Z")

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The reason is that another moderator/administrator has already reviewed (approving or rejecting) the pending post.

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### Author: ![david](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/david/32/157490_2.png) [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2019, 11:07am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/confusing-workflow-around-moderator-notifications/106047/3 "2019-01-09T11:07:07Z")

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We’re working on some changes in this area, which should significantly improve things soon 🙂

> [@Proposal: Consolidated Review Queue](https://meta.discourse.org/t/proposal-consolidated-review-queue/105588):
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> Background Right now Discourse has many different interfaces for reviewing things: Flagged Posts / Topics Approving Users Queued Posts (a user typed something too fast or other heuristic) Akismet Plugin Each one of the above has a different URL and interface, despite at their core being a similar operation. Additionally, the operations above are restricted to staff, and on some forums there is interest in allowing higher level trust users help out with approvals. Proposal The next version of…