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EDIT: While there are similarities with New review navigation does not tell review-banned users what happened or why (and please note that there are no answers to that question btw), I'm suggesting a different design and user journey.

I'm not a UX expert but this doesn't look right to me:

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The red dot usually is convention for "new items since your last visit". However when you click, the message is rather confusing; it's not immediately clear that you have been banned from reviewing.

Initially I thought it was a bug but eventually I worked out (via the meta site) that I've been user-review banned. (I've been told why and I agree with the decision.)

I think the UI could be something like this instead:

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When the user hovers the icon, a tooltip could say:

You have been banned from reviews until 31st of March. Click to understand why

And the click would redirect the user to https://stackoverflow.com/review (or the appropriate review page for the network)

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    related: meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/394498/…
    – rene
    Mar 23, 2020 at 14:06
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    Good idea, Stack Overflow has a pretty flat design though .. It should be just a diagonal single-colored line or whatever .. or the little checkbox becomes a cross. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
    – akuzminykh
    Mar 24, 2020 at 18:19
  • @SonictheAnonymousHedgehog it does not; nobody gave an answer to that question
    – customcommander
    Mar 24, 2020 at 20:22
  • While that doesn't have an answer, here on Meta Stack Exchange, it's valid to close questions as duplicates of unanswered questions if the other question is proposing the same thing. To that end, the system allows voting to close as duplicates of unanswered questions, which is not allowed on main sites. That question is simply asking for "something more informative", which this constitutes. See this section of our FAQ on how Meta Stack Exchange works and the last section of our FAQ on duplicate closures.
    – Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog
    Mar 24, 2020 at 20:33
  • For those voting to close as a duplicate, this question is not a duplicate of the suggested dup-target. While the questions cover a similar area, this question is a specific, explicit feature request. The other question is a bug report.
    – Makyen
    Mar 24, 2020 at 20:33
  • @Makyen It's still asking for the same thing: something more informative in case of a review ban, which this constitutes. The specific thing it's proposing should be posted as an answer there.
    – Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog
    Mar 24, 2020 at 20:34
  • @SonictheAnonymousHedgehog The other question is a bug report, not a feature request.
    – Makyen
    Mar 24, 2020 at 20:37
  • @SonictheAnonymousHedgehog While I haven't recently re-read the questions you linked, in a moderately brief scan there was nothing in them that said that feature requests should have answers on them suggesting alternate implementations. I'm not saying that's unreasonable, just that what you suggest is not documented as the appropriate action. In fact, I think that having answers on feature requests which suggest alternate implementations would be a good way to keep all similar such variations in one place.
    – Makyen
    Mar 24, 2020 at 20:39
  • @Makyen While this is tagged as a feature request, what this really is is a specific, proposed way of fixing the bug in the proposed dupe. This isn't really a wholly separate request from that one, when it comes to tracking the requests on SE's side.
    – Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog
    Mar 24, 2020 at 20:43
  • @SonictheAnonymousHedgehog Please note that I suggest solutions and not just "Please do something about it", so this ought to be different IMHO and should be taken into consideration. Perhaps you know better; in which case feel free to close.
    – customcommander
    Mar 24, 2020 at 20:54
  • That's exactly what I said; this is a specific, proposed way of fixing that bug. This is better served as an answer to that question rather than as a new question, since that will consolidate all discussion into one place and make it easier for SE to track this. (Even though this wouldn't really be an "answer" in the strict sense, here on Meta, answers that discuss questions are allowed in some cases, of which this is one.)
    – Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog
    Mar 24, 2020 at 20:56
  • @SonictheAnonymousHedgehog I don't think you can add tags such as status-review (which I believe help staff track such things) on answers. Is it entirely impossible to you that people can approach the problem in different ways hence allowing different questions? I shall close the question myself if you think otherwise.
    – customcommander
    Mar 24, 2020 at 20:59
  • Closed - thanks for your input.
    – customcommander
    Mar 24, 2020 at 21:03
  • I guess, if you're referring specifically to the requests themselves, they could be separate questions. However, this won't really work for reasons intrinsic to the system, as it makes it harder for SE to track the requests behind the scenes, as well as forking discussion into multiple places. I'm not saying your suggestion is invalid, just that it's not really a good way to put it forth due to these reasons. I do agree with your request. (Also, answers can be "tagged" with status tags - I've seen employees edit in tag markup [tag:something] into the bodies of answers.)
    – Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog
    Mar 24, 2020 at 21:05

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