Highlight the Spam and Pending menu items when posts are awaiting approval

[La Geek]

It would be very helpful if we could receive visual support during moderation, namely if the items “Spam” and “Pending” were somehow highlighted in the right sidebar (thread view) when posts are awaiting approval (To put this request into context: I am a moderator on the German WordPress forum de.w.org/support).

Email notifications are probably well suited for less frequented forums (as indicated in the ticket). A number indicating how many spam or pending posts are waiting to be approved is unnecessary. It would be sufficient to highlight the “Spam” and “Pending” menu items in some way when there are posts waiting to be approved: text color, border, icon, etc.

It often happens that we respond, but there are already pending posts in this thread and often the responses are superfluous or miss the point. You would have to check before every response whether there are spam or pending posts waiting to be approved.

[La Geek]

Email notifications are probably well suited for less frequented forums (as indicated in the ticket)

This refers to this ticket:
https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3570

[Otto42]

What coloring or other highlighting would you suggest?

[La Geek]

Perhaps something like this, background color of the link?