# Moderator Inbox Notifications
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderator-inbox-notifications/45754
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [June 16, 2016, 12:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderator-inbox-notifications/45754 "2016-06-16T12:28:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2016, 11:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderator-inbox-notifications/45754/21 "2016-06-18T11:30:52Z")
> [@TechnoBear](#):
>
> Moderator inbox was/is set to “tracking”
Oh, a Contrarian now are we? 😉
So much for the User Watch taking precedence over Group Track hypothesis,
EDIT
I’ve just discovered it’s group\_users.notification\_level, hypothesis is incorrect.
> [@TechnoBear](#):
>
> The inconsistencies here are very confusing
I found another Watching issue and I’ve been digging around.
I’m guessing it has to do with the ordering of what gets returned - somewhere. eg. in
widgets/notification-item.js.es6
```plaintext
if (topicId) {
return Discourse.Utilities.postUrl(attrs.slug, topicId, attrs.post_number);
}
if (attrs.notification_type === INVITED_TYPE) {
return Discourse.getURL('/users/' + data.display_username);
}
if (data.group_id) {
return Discourse.getURL('/users/' + data.username + '/messages/group/' + data.group_name);
}
```
i.e. if there are both a group\_id and a topicId, it’s the topicId that gets returned.
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### Author:  [@frabrunelle](https://meta.discourse.org/u/frabrunelle)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2016, 1:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderator-inbox-notifications/45754/22 "2016-06-23T13:10:03Z")
> [@cpradio](#):
>
> So why is it possibily a bug? The descriptions for Watching and Tracking both include “and a count of new replies will be shown”, Tracking seems to do this (assuming the group message is that count), watching does not.
Yes I think it’s a bug. Here is the description for Watching:
> You will be notified of every new post in every message, and a count of new replies will be shown.
I prefer to set my notification level to Watching and I would expect to see the `group_message_summary` notification when I do that (e.g. “6 messages in your moderators inbox”).
Here is the code that decides who receives a group summary notification:
>
It’s the `notify_group_summary` function that sends `group_message_summary` notifications. So currently, only group members with a notification level set to Tracking will receive it. I think we could modify the code like this:
```ruby
if notification_level == TopicUser.notification_levels[:watching]
create_notification(user, Notification.types[:private_message], post)
notify_group_summary(user, post)
elsif notification_level == TopicUser.notification_levels[:tracking]
if notified.include?(user)
create_notification(user, Notification.types[:private_message], post)
else
notify_group_summary(user, post)
end
end
```
Would that be the best way to fix this bug? Let me know if you have other ideas 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2019, 8:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderator-inbox-notifications/45754/23 "2019-02-03T20:44:36Z")
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2019, 11:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderator-inbox-notifications/45754/24 "2019-02-03T23:49:58Z")
hmmm … is there anything more to do here.
> [@cpradio](#):
>
> My tracking state is “Watching” on the Moderator inbox. So I should be getting notifications.
Is the root problem here that we did not reset tracking state on all old messages (since the new watching setting only applies to new messages) ?
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2019, 11:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderator-inbox-notifications/45754/25 "2019-02-03T23:51:28Z")
Not from I, it seems to be working as expected again for me, but things have also changed on my end, as I’m now the admin (but I feel like it was working better before that happened)
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2019, 11:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderator-inbox-notifications/45754/26 "2019-02-03T23:51:45Z")
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