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Old May 16, 2015 | 12:10 pm
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Originally Posted by JDiver
The "Alert a moderator to this post" function works quite well the way it is for many moderators. We get an email from the AMP, PMs go to our PM in basket for sorting. My PMs also go to e-mail notifications, so I can easily differentiate them.

As one of four Senior Moderators, we get AMPs from every forum that doesn't have appointed Moderators, as well as PMs regarding moderator issues such as posts sent to the moderation queues in those same fora, complaints, questions or suggestions regarding moderation, and too often PMs from members who feel it's acceptable to PM me with their questions instead of posting them in the appropriate fora.

It's very helpful to me to have the differentiation, and NOT have AMPs, which often have a greater time value to them and are easily disposed of, go to my PM in box.

The one minute delay does help prevent someone mischievously or malignantly abusing the system.
JDiver, a logistics question: If I see three separate spam threads in one forum, do I have to alert the moderator to all three? (Alert, wait 60 seconds, alert, wait another 60 seconds, alert) or can I just alert on one and say something like, "You'll see three other similar posts in the same forum," or "This new poster has spammed six other threads," and leave it at that?
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