# Why would a staff member choose to flag but not take action immediately?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-would-a-staff-member-choose-to-flag-but-not-take-action-immediately/39281>\
**Category:** Community Building\
**Created:** [2016年二月9日 12:16 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-would-a-staff-member-choose-to-flag-but-not-take-action-immediately/39281 "2016-02-09T12:16:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![meglio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/meglio/32/71444_2.png) [@meglio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meglio)\
**Post date:** [2016年二月9日 12:16 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-would-a-staff-member-choose-to-flag-but-not-take-action-immediately/39281/1 "2016-02-09T12:16:28Z")

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If an admin or a mod flags a message “offtopic” but not takes action immediately, a red counter appears, which is seen immediately by the admin or mod who just flagged.

Suppose I, an admin, just flagged.  
Now I see the red counter which asks me to review the flag and take action.

Once I tried to do so, other admins and mods asked me “why did I flag and not take any action”.

And now I’m asking myself - what is the purpose and how it should work? How these two scenarios are different and where to use each.

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**Author:** ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)\
**Post date:** [2016年二月9日 14:38 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-would-a-staff-member-choose-to-flag-but-not-take-action-immediately/39281/2 "2016-02-09T14:38:49Z")

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Here are a few reasons you might want to do that

- you want other moderators to review it before you take action
- you don’t have time to do a proper review and want to leave it in the queue for later

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**Author:** ![meglio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/meglio/32/71444_2.png) [@meglio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meglio)\
**Post date:** [2016年二月13日 08:30 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-would-a-staff-member-choose-to-flag-but-not-take-action-immediately/39281/3 "2016-02-13T08:30:42Z")

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What if it is a “spam flag”, and someone from the mods clicks “Postpone” button… Will 2 more spam flags (now total of 3) lead to an action taken automatically?

In other words, will all spam flags be counted to check with the threshold, or non-postponed flags only?

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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [2021年十一月14日 06:32 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-would-a-staff-member-choose-to-flag-but-not-take-action-immediately/39281/8 "2021-11-14T06:32:13Z")

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是的，如果您不选择立即采取行动，版主标记就和普通标记一样。正如 @zogstrip 正确指出的那样，版主可能会标记一个帖子以获得其他版主对该帖子的更多意见。有时这是一个协作过程。