I received this morning an Echo notification for a new page that I created:
Meadow Fire was reviewed byTillman.
I never paid much attention to page review notifications ( I haven't created many new
pages since Echo was deployed) but it strikes me that these messages do not convey any
meaningful information to the recipient:
* they refer to a "new page review" process that most new editors are definitely
not aware of (when creating a page we don't tell the page creator: your page will be
reviewed") and don't provide any link to it.
* they mention a moderation action that the user will have trouble interpreting (is this
good? Is this bad? Am I supposed to do something? Should I talk to the reviewer that the
notification links to? What happens now to the page that I created?)
* if the notification is not meant to be actionable but is supposed to work as a positive
feedback signal, it's poorly designed for this purpose in its current form.
I'd like to hear thoughts from this list on the intended purpose of this notification
and how we can improve it so the recipient understands what s/he is being notified about.
Dario