There is a First Posts beta review task now. That one has currently about 34K posts. What stumps me a bit is that the old First Questions queue had over 300k posts in it yesterday. So what happend to the difference?
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Either a lot of people did a lot of reviewing or they set a cut-off limit to get rid of some of the really, really old first posts that just never got reviewed and probably don't need reviewed.– animuson StaffModCommented Sep 14, 2012 at 7:29
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1Maybe high-voted first questions are not included too, since they are considered "good" already– SingerOfTheFallCommented Sep 14, 2012 at 7:39
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Right now the old link still works on direct call: stackoverflow.com/review/…– Shegit BrahmCommented Sep 14, 2012 at 10:53
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The old /review page was based on reputation, and could actually contain multiple posts from the same person. At the same time, it excluded true first posts from folks who passed the reputation threshold by some other means. IIRC, it was actually based on a 10K tool that existed previously, the more accurately named, "New Posts by New Users".
The new queue focuses specifically on the very first post made by a member of the site. The only exception right now is that posts older than 30 days are excluded - otherwise, everything else is fair game. If you show up and post a dozen answers on your first day, the first of these will still be in the queue - but the rest won't be.
The up-side of this is that it should be much more useful as a means of introducing new users to the site: rather than being clogged with posts from prolific but mediocre writers, everyone signing up gets one shot at fame.
The down-side is probably that it's less useful for highlighting crap. But at this point, we have better ways of handling that.
