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View submission: Moderation basics (modqueues and more)
Very useful info, thank you. You always provide very thoughtful comments, thanks for doing that.
Automod can be used to modmail for every new post for situation where that might be helpful.
Discord webhook feeds can also do this if you have a server. The mee6 bot does it and I'm sure others. Discord can then notify you on your discord app - desktop or mobile.
It might be worth considering the activity level of your sub though, notifs for every post will get old fast on a very busy sub.
I'll have a look at RSS later, maybe worth doing a guide.
Comment by [deleted] at 24/03/2020 at 16:15 UTC
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I suppose the best part of being a trailblazer is leaving behind maps for others to follow.
Yeah, one of the subs I'm mod in has a few automod routines that send a message to modmail. It seems a little bit redundant, though it does let you note *which* automod rule was the one triggered, but also still not helpful if you don't know there's a new modmail waiting.
And you are correct, the subreddit size, number of active mods, and average rate of reports all play a role in this. At some point you can't be looking at any of your screens, and you hope the other mods are looking at theirs instead, or at the very least that things aren't usually such a crisis that a modqueue item can't sit for a few hours before somebody gets to it. Certainly subs like r/askreddit are an entirety different paradigm in terms of activity. I think the vast majority of subs aren't very large or unwieldy though.
Well, if there are so many reports that an RSS reader is active constantly, then you really don't need it to tell you there's something new in the modqueue, because there's *always* something new in the modqueue.
I know that r/toolbox, modsoup for Android, and others also help with this kind of thing, though I tend to seek out simple solutions to specific issues that don't involve big installations or features I don't intend to use.