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I was just taking a look at the reviews, and I saw that the amount of first posts jumped by over 400. It usually hovers around 0. Take a look

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Also, most of the things I'm reviewing in that are not first posts at all, they're from people with a good amount of rep

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Our daily task has been a bit constipated backed up and tonight's run removed about 13,000 old, abandoned, closed questions.

Of those 13K, about 400 were the previous "first posts" by their owners - now that they were deleted, the next post by each owner became eligible to be in the queue. And our queue system obliged, creating the bump.

One could argue this is incorrect behavior, but my take is it allows more eyes on content that probably does need reviewing (the owners' previous first posts were just auto-deleted!).

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I think it has to do with the Christmas hats campaign the Stack Exchange network is running right now. See here: http://winterbash2013.stackexchange.com/. Users are given an incentive to participate in other parts of the network in order to earn gifts.

This is another go at gamification, albeit a seasonal version and from the new posts I would say that it is working! :)

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    I don't think so, see meta.stackexchange.com/questions/212280/…, and take a look at my answer and the accepted answer
    – scrblnrd3
    Commented Dec 20, 2013 at 3:30
  • Ah, this question looks like a duplicate.
    – Joshua Robinson
    Commented Dec 20, 2013 at 3:32
  • Maybe, but different queue
    – scrblnrd3
    Commented Dec 20, 2013 at 3:32
  • Nope. At least not intentionally. We're not boosting review queues just for the purpose of hats.
    – Adam Lear StaffMod
    Commented Dec 20, 2013 at 3:39

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