Rearrange button order in Suggested Edits review queue

Question

There was an earlier suggestion to rearrange the buttons in the closevote review queue to prevent errant clicks.

I would suggest a similar thing (knowing the previous didn't get implemented for close votes) in the Suggested Edits queue. The current order of buttons there is:

Approve Reject Improve Skip

Already twice today, I managed to mis-click on Approve when intending to Reject. Having no confirmation or subsequent reason selection to make, my errant approvals were saved.

To remedy this, a better order might be:

Approve Improve Skip Reject

My (over?)thinking here is that:

• Approve and Reject are really unlikely to be confused in a wild click
• A mis-click between Approve & Improve will do no harm if taken to the Improve screen,
• and not a huge amount harm if Approved when intending to Improve.
• Between Improve & Skip an errant Improve can be backed out of
• An errant Skip just kicks it down the road...
• Between Skip & Reject, an errant click on Reject gives can be backed out of on the reject reason
• An errant click on Skip just kicks your intended rejection down the road to someone else.

To maintain consistency with all the other queues, Skip probably needs to remain the right-most button. This doesn't deviate much from what is above in effectiveness. What's most important is to separate the Approve and Reject actions, approvals have no secondary screen.

Approve Improve Reject Skip

Answer 1

No. I don't think this would be a good idea. People who are used to the original system will be thrown off. Is this really a big enough problem to surprise countless reviewers, force them to adapt to a new arrangement, etc.?

Instead of rearranging the buttons because of this problem, we could put more space between buttons or add an "approve confirm."

This isn't really that big of a problem though. We already have a safeguard of 3 people having to approve. I think a bit more space would be nice, but not a complete rearrangement.