I just failed these review audits in First Post, I read the question and thought it seemed reasonable but the user was deleted so to be on the safe side I clicked add comment and I failed the audit.
I'm not sure why adding a comment would be considered a negative action, is the correct option to click No Action Needed or edit?
What was I supposed to do in this situation? Adding a comment should not be a review audit fail.
I understand the problem with people cheating the first post review audits by simply clicking the add comment button, but there really has to be a more graceful way to handle it.
It should be as simple as forcing the person to actually write the comment and submit it which will make it less abusable, and if they are abusing the system, they'll be caught quickly because they'll actually be posting their (presumably canned) comments on real questions.
And if the comments actually aren't canned and relevant to the question anyway, then it's really not that harmful that people are doing it.
Both edit and add comment are neutral actions, and it doesn't make sense for someone to fail an audit regardless of whether the post is good or bad (unless it's a blatant spam post or something).
add comment button without actually leaving a comment. This meant that people could continue just grinding through the queue without paying attention.
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Oct 11, 2013 at 16:36
I understand the purpose of positive audits but I think the system is flawed. The good way to review is take time, read the post and understand it. When doing that, I find myself having all sorts off thoughts around the topic mentioned in the post. Sometimes I would like to add something. Sometimes I know a good link that would add to the post. Sometimes I would like to see clarification of some point which I believe could be expanded on. Comments are all suitable for that. I still think the post is good and I just want to comment on it so that it can become better.
Yet the system tries to stop me from doing that. It encourages me to only post comments on bad posts. My understanding is that comments don't work this way outside of the review system. We end up having to follow 2 sets of rules: one when reviewing and one outside of the review queue.
The same applies to edits in much lesser extent - edits of good posts are less warranted than comments (of the type mentioned above).
I've just failed First Posts review queue audit on such answer:
Sort the other range only, and then use std::merge.
While the using of std::merge could really solve the OPs problem, I've found it not appropriate to flag the answer as link-only. However, according to current guidelines, the answer should be independent from the link, so it should provide at least some usage example (which, as I expect, is to be found under the given link).
I've wanted to add a comment to the AP asking to elaborate and add some example, and I've failed! I think this is flawed! I'm punished for trying to improve the post, because other users have voted it to be good as it is. It's very confusing and should be fixed. Posting a comment shouldn't fail the audit, if the flagging or recommending deletion won't follow.
add-commentfor a "good" review audit, at a minimum it should perform a sentiment analysis of the comment. Adding a comment is almost always a valid action in any context.