Unable to later review skipped Low Quality Posts reviews, which is normally allowed for other review queues

Question

When reviewing Low Quality Posts, I accidentally pressed Skip instead of Recommend Deletion. So when I noticed my mistake, I went back by pressing the browser's "go back" button. The problem is that now the item is not reviewable:

After some testing, I've figured out that it seems to happen every time I press Skip and then visit the review item again, either by pressing the browser's back button, following a link from my review history, or visiting that URL in any other way. However, refreshing the page or even closing the tab and then copy-pasting the URL into a new tab works just fine, so it seems to only happen after having pressed the Skip button.

Here are two examples where it happened:

• https://stackoverflow.com/review/low-quality-posts/15276440
• https://stackoverflow.com/review/low-quality-posts/15276442

This happens only with the Low Quality Posts queue; in other review queues, I can still review an item by navigating back to it after skipping it initially.

Can this bug please be fixed?

Answer 1

This will be fixed in the next build.

Each queue has a general filter to exclude non-skip reviewed tasks when picking new ones, but a handful of queues have cross-validation on post ID. The apparent thought is that we don't want the reviewer handling the same post in multiple queues. (For example, the same post could end up in First Posts and Late Answers.) Unfortunately, this additional exclusion logic treated skipped tasks as reviews and prevented them from being returned to.

Answer 2

We're taking a look at this as part of ongoing work on the review queues. So far, it is unclear whether this behavior is intentional or an oversight. I'm hoping we'll be able to dig up some history internally, but unless we come up with something absolutely showstopping, I expect we'll be fixing this.

We'll post an update here once we have a decision either way.