# Not allowing moderators to view flagged messages
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-allowing-moderators-to-view-flagged-messages/118383
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 22, 2019, 10:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-allowing-moderators-to-view-flagged-messages/118383 "2019-05-22T10:56:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@meiadeleite](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meiadeleite)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2019, 10:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-allowing-moderators-to-view-flagged-messages/118383/1 "2019-05-22T10:56:23Z")
Is there a way to restrict flagged messages viewing to admins only?
I’m fine with admins being able to check private messages in case of a problem, but I’m not comfortable with all our moderators being able to view flagged private conversations.
In our community, most moderators are just volunteer helpers and not people under a stricter contract, so because of the GDPR and other privacy concerns, I would prefer not to give them this ability.
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2019, 10:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-allowing-moderators-to-view-flagged-messages/118383/2 "2019-06-02T22:05:02Z")
If you don’t trust your moderators, you could make them TL4 instead?
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### Author:  [@meiadeleite](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meiadeleite)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2019, 11:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-allowing-moderators-to-view-flagged-messages/118383/3 "2019-06-03T11:04:09Z")
I trust our moderators to monitor and deal with problems on the community, so I want them to have access to posts that are flagged… just not private messages.
After opening this topic tough, I saw that [assigning specific categories to moderators](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-group-review-moderation/116478) shows them flags on those categories only and no messages — which is what I was looking for.
I’ll mark this as solved.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2019, 11:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-allowing-moderators-to-view-flagged-messages/118383/4 "2019-07-03T11:04:14Z")
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