I tried searching but did not see this suggestion. Or maybe it's already a feature and I haven't found a way to enable it yet.
At the top of the forum when a member is a moderator or admin, we have alerts in the header at the top:
Moderation queue: 0 Reported items: 0
It would be helpful to have a third item up there--Users Awaiting Approval. I had a member sitting a few days without approval since none of us noticed it. (I had signed up with another test account shortly thereafter, so I did not see the name listed under "newest member.")
Somewhat related--is there a place I can set up where staff gets emails on this activity, or is this not possible? I'm going to poke around in the settings in a few minutes to see if I missed a setting or two, but our staff does not sit on the forum all day long, and most of us prefer email alerts, especially if posts are reported.