braymond64

That fixed it. Thank you!

Very close. 🙂
WafflesAreDelish and CrustSideOnTop would be the same user. And I think Mrs. Buttersworth's part is redundant. So it can be simplified to this:
I have various forums setup, each with distinct moderators that only have moderation permissions within those forums: Pizza Forum Pancake Forum Peach Cobbler Forum Braymond, a noted expert in established pizza circles, is a moderator only in the pizza forum, with no moderation privileges on the peach cobbler or pancake forums. New member, WafflesAreDelish, posts a first post in the Pancake forum which must be approved by a moderator. Braymond receives a notification to approve WafflesAreDelish's post in the pancake forum because they are a moderator somewhere, but not in the Pancake forum. And then consider that there are subforums also with different moderators, which doesn't change anything logically just shows the extent of the issue.
Pizza Forum Thick crust Thin crust Standard crust Stuffed crust Pancake Forum Peach Cobbler Forum Etc. Support says that is what is supposed to happen. I agree with you that it should be configurable, which is why I posted here. It's surprising to me that this isn't common.

My forum site is for a standards organization. So we have various categories that correspond to standards and multiple forums within each category. I have different moderators for each category and sometimes different moderators for individual forums within a category. I spent some time setting this up in the system using groups. The idea was that people who were involved with a particular standard would moderate the forum(s) that pertain to that standard.
The issue is that the users are getting all moderation requests, not just the moderation requests in their group that has moderator privileges for their forum. When I contacted support, they said that this is just how it works... that even though they only have rights to moderate within their forum, they will see moderation requests for all of the forums.
It clutters up their email with moderation requests that don't pertain to them. I'm having to have them set up email rules to filter out the requests outside their forum(s). I would like to request finer control over which moderator requests people receive.
Thanks.