When moving an unapproved post, XenForo offers to alert the user although it actually won't create an alert

[Steffen]

When moving a post, XenForo gives the moderator the opportunity to alert the user (and to optionally enter a reason). These input fields also exist when moving an unapproved post although XenForo will never actually create an alert for unapproved posts ("XF\Service\Post\Mover::sendAlert" skips posts whose "message_state" is not "visible"). The checkbox and the optionally entered reason are silently discarded.

I'm not sure what the best solution is here. Maybe XenForo could show a warning...

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