Don’t send notifications until they’ve been filtered. My idea is to keep nasty messages out of inboxes.
Hello, I’ve encountered an issue. I have received notifications for comments that say that I should kill myself. If I click on it to go to it, it isn’t there, because reddit’s filters have snagged it. But there the abuse is in my inbox. Because it was caught, the comment isn’t visible. Because it isn’t visible, I can’t report it. But there it is in my notifications.
So reddit knows this message shouldn’t be visible, but sends it to me anyway? That needs to be fixed. There are plenty of vulnerable people all over this place. What is currently happening is they are the only people who see the abuse, and they have no way to report it.