UI annoyances in the suggested edit review on Stack Overflow [closed]

Question

On Stack Overflow, suggested edits need two reviewers. So when you're the first reviewer to give your opinion (approve or reject) or if you're the second but vote the other way than the first reviewer, the edit stays in the queue. This has two annoying consequences when you're going through the suggested edit list (5k only):

• If you cast the deciding vote, the entry for this edit disappears from the list (it's moved to a header line at the top of the list). Otherwise the edit remains in place. This is annoying because it means the position of the next entry on the screen depends on something that shouldn't be relevant (whether you just cast the deciding vote). It's especially annoying because the entry can take a couple of seconds to disappear when it does, which has led me to click on the wrong row a couple of times, when the next edit was an obvious accept or reject.
• If you revisit the list and one of the edits you voted on still hasn't been decided, the entry appears again (with no buttons). Why show me the entry again? There's nothing I can do about it any more.

Here's the behavior I'd like:

• An edit never disappears from the list as long as I don't reload the page.
• If I reload the page, edits I've already voted on don't appear.

Alternatively:

• When I've voted on an edit, it disappears to the collapsed list at the beginning, and stays there even if I reload the page.
• The disappearance should be instantaneous, with no fading.

Either way, please make the behavior on voting consistent whether my vote was the deciding one or not. And if the page is changed when I click on a vote button, the change should be instantaneous.

But please don't let that deter you from reviewing a few suggested edits on Stack Overflow. Visit the list and review one page (30 suggestions). We get 500–800 suggestions on a typical day. If 2% of the eligible ~5000 people do one page every day and vote on half the suggestions they see, we're good.

Answer 1

I was in the middle of writing my own question ranting about this. The three solutions I would accept were as follows;

1. Never remove a post from the list, as you loose your place in the queue. Instead, fade the post out so the user knows they've handled it. Regardless of whether it's the deciding vote or not.

   

2. If the post is removed, scroll the user to a consistent place on the place; i.e. the next post that is to be removed.

3. Have House of Pain - Jump Around playing constantly in the background whilst in the suggested-edit queue.

   

EDIT: In the meantime, I've written a Userscript which fixes these annoyances.

Answer 2

This is less of an answer and more of an additional gripe.

When choosing to 'Improve' a suggested edit, you're taken to the stand-alone edit page and on saving your edit, returned to the question page (not back to the Edit queue).

Can we not just edit in-place à la the other Review queues (Late Answers, etc.)?

EDIT: Now posted as a question