I can’t find a way to notify the moderators that pending messages are waiting. Please advise. I have searched the form and I can’t find the answer. One guy said this feature was added “two weeks ago”, but I can’t find it.

[image] K_Tysinger: I can’t find a way to notify the moderators that pending messages are waiting. Please advise. Messages waiting to be approved should show up in the Review queue. [Review Queue Notification] [Review Queue Pending Approval] Do you have the boxes ticked for it in the cat…

I’m sorry for being unclear. Specifically, I want to email the moderators each time a new post or reply is waiting for approval. Sometimes I go hours and hours before checking the board and finding old messages waiting to be approved.

There’s a ‘notify about queued posts after’ setting that may be useful? [notify about queued posts after] That will send a notification out, and should send an email soon after (depending on your email preferences) Update: I set this on my test site for 1 hour. I did indeed get a notification se…

To add to what @JammyDodger said, my colleague @dax just reminded me that moderators will be notified/emailed only if they set the moderators inbox to “Watching”.

I’ve tripped over myself a bit with this. :slightly_smiling_face: I did not get the email from the first test (notify about queued posts after) because the Moderator inbox default is ‘Tracking’ and not ‘Watching’. You can change this default by going to /g/moderators/manage/interaction. The emails…

I would have never figured this out by myself – thanks! I put a fraction in the notify field (0.25). Let you know if it works.

I tried that too, and it does not. :slightly_smiling_face: If you check back again now, it will have reverted to 0.

Doesn’t setting the moderator inbox to watching not resolve the issue for you?

My forum only has 6 members, so I am waiting on somebody to post… Let you know.

I have revisited this as after a re-read it seemed a little on the scrappy side. :slight_smile: From my ‘fresh-eyes’ test I have discovered that: Setting the Moderator inbox to ‘Watching’ (and the mod’s PM email user preference to ‘always’) you will immediately get a notification alongside the r…

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