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View submission: An update to Mod Push Notifications
Speaking from experience making toolbox notifications can get overwhelming quick. Are there any plans of simply making counters available for queues like we do with toolbox?
Edit:
To clarify, sending notifications seems like a good idea until you are modding a busy sub and they basically come in on such interval that they distract from everything else. With counters you still have a clear idea things need to be addressed but a bit more control over when to actually devote attention to it.
Comment by 0perspective at 18/05/2021 at 16:28 UTC
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We definitely hear you about notifications becoming overwhelming if you’re modding a really large community or multiple communities. We've done some work to make these super customizable so that if folks get overwhelmed they can change it, and we've got some automation on the backend that will also raise thresholds for notifications as your subreddit grows. Hopefully that will keep the overall volume down.
That said, we have been thinking through things like counters in the inbox and queues, as you're totally right that when moderating larger subreddits it's a tricky balance to stay informed and not overwhelmed.