# 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:** [9 Febrero, 2016 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:** ![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:** [9 Febrero, 2016 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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