Could (should?) we exclude the Formatting Sandbox from the Low Quality review queue?

Question

Every so now and again I see an "answer" from the Formatting Sandbox on the Low Quality review queue, presumably automatically added there due to the number of downvotes it received.

However, the Formatting Sandbox is there just for people to experiment with formatting, so I wonder what those downvotes mean. They don't mean the answer is wrong, like in regular main site posts, and they don't mean disagreement like in regular meta posts. Assuming these answers aren't spam-links or abusive, how should we treat them? Alternatively, should we just exclude those posts from that review queue?

Answer 1

It’s called the Formatting Sandbox but if anyone wanted to test out the review queues, it would be the right place to do so. Thus I don’t think it’s necessary to treat it special.

In most cases, someone just gets an easy review to do. Because it’s a sandbox, anything that’s not either a red flag or literally asking for deletion “looks ok”.

Answer 2

Assuming these answers aren't spam-links or abusive, how should we treat them?

Just as any other post? In the context of the question those answers can still be useful or not and can be flagged or not. They need no other treatment. If users want to spend their flags on it, so be it. If you don't want to review them, skip.

Alternatively, should we just exclude those posts from that review queue?

No, let's not spend time on excluding specific posts from review, if only for the precedent that creates. Next up are announcement post to not be open for review and then other sites enter their controversial posts.

There is not much broken here on MSE and reviewers are in general sane. They are capable of making the right decisions as they do for many posts. If they review carefully they will make the right call. I don't see huge abuse or mis-judgement and if it does we can better fix that with moderators and meta posts then with a technical solution.