Flagging posts as a moderator

[Lilly (Lillian)]

@Steradiant

which I consider problematic

if you think it is “problematic” then flag it with the appropriate flag type and let another moderator judge for themselves, then choose to un-hide it if they disagree. This is the proper workflow of the review queue and Discourse moderation in general. When you say “prior history of personal conflict with respective person”, I assume you mean that your judgement as a moderator may be affected, and thus you should act as a regular user would and flag it accordingly. as stated, the other alternative to use are whisper posts that other staff can see, or since you said this only happens “sometimes” simply:

@Steradiant

sending a message to my fellow mods manually