Please do these things, because:

(1) One or the other of us might be off-line when your request comes in, causing you to wait in impatient limbo. Also, if I see a red face (mod note), I'll give it a higher priority and get to it much sooner than a red envelope.

(2) if you are asking us to "check" if a post has been filtered, send us a link to the post, so we don't have to go fishing through your account for it. It might seem like it should be easy to find, (since you just subbed it five minutes prior) but subs come in its and spurts, and the extra minute or three we need to search for your latest sub is an inconvenience easily avoided.

We're happy to do these things to help traffic move along, but we need a little help from you.