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What are review tests (audits) and how do they work?
I sometimes receive this rather amusing message while reviewing in the review queues:
Congratulations!
This was only a test, designed to make sure you were paying attention. You passed.
If I am not ...
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How do suggested edits work?
When clicking "edit" I see:
Your edit will be placed in a queue until it is peer reviewed.
We welcome edits that make the post easier to understand and more valuable for readers. Because ...
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How does duplicate closing work? When is a question a duplicate, and how should duplicate questions be handled?
Questions can be closed as duplicates.
When are two questions considered duplicates?
Which question is the duplicate?
It's a duplicate. What do I do?
Should I edit the question?
Should I answer it?
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Review queue workflows - Final release
All good things must come to an end and so must the review queues project. This project would not have been successful without the community. Thank you all for the hours of reviewing, testing, and ...
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Who is the Community user?
I see the Community user on the user page. It seems to edit posts sometimes. What is it?
And why has it downvoted over 1800 times?
See also:
What are “Community Wiki” posts?
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What are the guidelines for reviewing?
About reviewing
The review queues contain posts that possibly need further action from the community, like improvement, closure, or deletion. By presenting those posts for peer-review, the system aims ...
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How do you reopen a closed question?
To reopen a closed question, up to five (5) people✝ with the ability to cast reopen votes must agree that the question is suitable for the site and cast votes to reopen the question.
But:
How does ...
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Shutting down recurring community self-evaluations
We've been talking a lot about the efficacy of community self-evaluations lately, both internally on the Community Team and out in the open on meta. Lots of ideas were tossed around, but the ...
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Improving Review Queues - Design overview I: Onboarding and updating workflows
This is one of three project announcements for Improving Review Queues. We’ve summarized the project objectives and goals here.
As a reminder, this project is still in the early stages of discovery. ...
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New onboarding for review queues
The Public Platform team is continuing to work towards improving the review queues and we’re here today to announce a new onboarding experience for the review queues.
In the product discovery phase (...
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When is a review task "completed" or "invalidated"?
I've noticed that the number of reviews required to remove a post from a queue varies. For example, to accept/reject a suggested edit, you need two votes of the same kind. If the votes are conflicting,...
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Lots of questions in the reopen queue [closed]
I've noticed in the last couple of days that there have been a few occasions when there's been a sudden surge of questions in the SO "Reopen" review queue.
Normally there's either no questions at all ...
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What is community moderation, and what can I do to help?
What is community moderation?
Why is it important for me to get involved?
What can I do to help, and where do I start?
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Why are there automatic moderator flags (autoflags) from the Community User, and what are they for?
Occasionally as a moderator I've noticed flags from the Community user. I've got a few questions:
Why do they exist?
What events trigger them?
How might moderators act on them?