I have revisited this as after a re-read it seemed a little on the scrappy side.
From my ‘fresh-eyes’ test I have discovered that:
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Setting the Moderator inbox to ‘Watching’ (and the mod’s PM email user preference to ‘always’) you will immediately get a notification alongside the red Review Queue one, and an email sent out, but only for the something else flags. The others will not generate a message in the Moderator’s inbox, so won’t trigger any inbox notifications.
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But if you also set
notify about flags after
to the minimum of 1 hour rather than the default 48 then that will send out a PM to the Moderator inbox, which will trigger a notification and then an email.
- There is also the
notify about queued posts after
admin setting, which is only concerned with those posts which require approval. - And a similar one
pending users reminder delay minutes
for users needing approval
Hopefully that is a little clearer.