Good day steemians, today on my post will be suggesting for a feature to be included on the Utopian site, the feature I am referring to is the notification alert on approval or decline of post.
 
## Reasons for the suggestion:
When we all make a post on the Utopian site we all wait patiently to wait for the comment from the moderators on the acceptance or decline of our post and while doing this we frequently keep checking on our blog for every single comment that drops on the post repeatedly, hoping it was from the moderator but it might not really be the case.
![Screenshot_2017-12-17-22-12-28.png](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1513545866/ldxwicjamrvtywxvqlnk.png)
**There is no indication that a moderator has visited ones blog**

## MY VIEWS
My view on this inactivated notification of our post's approval or decline is that it makes it difficult for the author of such a post to differentiate between a moderators comment and other comments and this may lead to;
* delay on tasks been given by the moderator concerning the approval of the post.
* unnecessary anxiety created on the author due to expectance of the moderator's view on the post.
* delay as well on the works of the moderators in the sense that when they require some particular informations from the author before the approval of the post.

## WAY FORWARD

A notification feature could be incorporated into the site to enable the author know when a moderator has visited and dropped a comment on their posts on the site. 
And looking at how the steemit site shows its notification when there are new feeds as well as facebook,


![20171217_221521.png](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1513545405/ftyrcjuis5c4zbpiu72n.png)
 same could be incorporated into the Utopian site to enable the author know when their posts has been declined, accepted or the moderator requires some specific information pertaining to the post made.

A column like this below could be made on the site;
![20171217_221411.png](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1513545743/samtvtavvd4poeakh8u7.png)

The exclamation will send a notice to the author that a moderator just visited his blog so he can read the comment to know the state of the post.

It has been cool having great minds here, I will love to see this feature been included on the Utopian site to reduce the approval anxiety among contributors 


<br /><hr/><em>Posted on <a href="https://utopian.io/utopian-io/@dray91eu/notification-for-approval-and-decline-of-posts-on-utopian">Utopian.io -  Rewarding Open Source Contributors</a></em><hr/>