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Closing a question that's being used as a known good audit should immediately remove it from the audit pool

We've identified a problem on SO with "known good" audits: Question is asked and quickly upvoted Question is selected as a "known good" audit candidate Question is closed (often ...
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Exclude reopened questions from Close Vote audits

Apparently, poor questions which were quickly closed with no answers are used as audits even after such questions are edited, reopened and answered. Since audits present the latest revision of the ...
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Why does the review audit mention "Voting to close" for an answer?

I just passed a review audit in the First Posts review. I passed it on an "I'm having this problem too" answer by downvoting it. Where it says that I passed the audit, it lists a few appropriate ...
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Close question review audits should "pass" faster

I was given a review audit for the close queue, and I had to Click the close button Choose the "off topic" radio button Click the "Vote to close" button For a closeworthy question as an audit, ...
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Can moderators see the close/reopen _votes_ (and _not_ the reviews)?

Yes I know, mods (and 10k+ users) can see others' reviews, including the close/reopen reviews. But what if a close or reopen vote happens from any review indepently? As I can see, in this case it ...
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Close votes review bug when daily limit is reached

SE site: http://magento.stackexchange.com Scenario: - I'm reviewing the "close votes" section. - I only have one more close vote for today. - I choose to close the question I'm reviewing. ...
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Strange behaviour in close vote review audit ("This item is not available for review")

I've done the most close (and re-open) reviewing on Server Fault. Interestingly, the odd behaviour I've run into recently only shows up because I'm not a robo-reviewer: In many cases, if it's not ...
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Filter by tag in Close Votes review gives question without that tag

I was reviewing python Close Votes in the review queues. When I pressed 'Next' in the review page, it gives me a question which is not related to python. Check below screenshot
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A question I voted to close is presented to me as a review audit

I just encountered this review audit. As you can see, I am one of the people who voted to close this question in the first place, and the question hasn't been edited. This seems wrong to me. While ...
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Audit question and duplicate

I tried to close this audit question as a duplicate: Using the 'new' modifier in C#. I thought the duplicate was: C# Polymorphism. Perhaps this question is not a good candidate for an audit. ...
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Close vote audit incorrect [duplicate]

I was just going through the close votes and was confronted with this close vote audit: https://stackoverflow.com/review/close/4392357 (JavaScript built-in class documentation serialized in JSON?) In ...
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Review test catching people indiscriminately for duplicate questions [duplicate]

I occasionally get flagged for not passing a review audit test because of duplicate questions. In nearly all cases for a duplicate answer vote the easiest way to see the candidate questions is to ...
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dispute review audit [duplicate]

I have just failed a review audit and was told that this question did not have any problem. To my understanding of the SO asking rules, that question is not actually on an implementation problem, but ...
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Close vote test / audit questions and filters

I'm trying to work my way through the close vote test queue with a filter of [c], which is in essence my field of expertise. My knowledge of (e.g.) JavaScript, iOS etc is sufficiently limited that I'm ...
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Create option to flag an audit [duplicate]

https://stackoverflow.com/review/close/4250809 I can understand how this turned out to be a useful question. On the other hand, by what I understand to be guidelines of what makes a question ...
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Don't fail my audit just because I clicked Close [duplicate]

So today I failed my first review audit. I had gone to close questions specifically filtered with sql-server-2008 and, when this question popped up, I clicked Close simply to see why others might have ...
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Why is this question on topic?

I just hit an audit and failed (for my first time) and I'm wondering why. Its this question: Detect and Log copy/paste/delete/cut operations in File Explorer in where the question is: Is there ...
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Why is a question about measuring cat feces an audit for close votes? [closed]

Counting column data in a matrix with resets starts off with: I'm gathering data on how much my cats poop into a matrix: Most shockingly, this line says: The cumsum function does something ...
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I failed a close queue review audit on SO [closed]

I failed a review audit based on this question Markdown in other Statistics packages than R I recommended it for closure (largely opinion based). But this is not what the audit expected. Can anyone ...
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Filtering to Duplicates makes Close-Votes Queue a Haven for Robo-Reviewers

I recently started filtering to duplicates in the close votes queue and I've noticed that every review will always have a Duplicate tab allowing you to tab between the question and proposed duplicate. ...
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Delay judgment on close votes review audits until "Vote To Close" is clicked in lightbox [duplicate]

Regarding Potential Duplicates: I saw this question, which got closed as a duplicate of this question, which in turn has an "accepted" answer, but doesn't answer the question (or, the answer was ...
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Close vote tests on StackOverflow [duplicate]

I've been seeing a few failed tests when I vote to close questions on SO. Apparently others thought the questions were valid enough, but they lacked (for instance) code, or were not code-related. One ...
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Post I voted down and close is shown to me as known good audit?

Post that has been presented as a "known good" audit item is one I voted down and close about two weeks ago (close vote expired). Is the algorithm to pick such items designed to allow posts having ...
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Vote to close question with no research effort - failed audit [closed]

Audit in question is this: https://stackoverflow.com/review/low-quality-posts/3217410 I disagree with the audit although there are five upvotes, no flags, and no close votes. Even though the asker ...
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Close vote review audits should not be failed before choosing the reason and clicking "Vote To Close" [duplicate]

What is this about? The close vote review workflow is currently like this: You are given a question. You read the question and decide whether to close it or not. If you click on Leave Open, goto 5 ...
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YARAFP: Yet Another Review Audit Failed Post [closed]

I just failed a close-vote audit by voting to close this question. I genuinely believe there is a good case for closing it, as the question has a number of issues. Yes, it has five upvotes, an ...
Christian Ternus's user avatar
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Request for review: close/reopen "known good" audits

The difficulty of some review audits in the /close and /reopen queues has been brought up here a few times recently. It's true: a few of these audits are difficult, if not outright misleading. We've ...
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Is it time to rethink how audits are chosen? (take 2)

At first, this may look like a duplicate, but the other one was downvoted, it seems, because people disagree for my reasoning on why I failed. Please keep your votes centered around the request. I ...
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Is it time to rethink how audits are chosen?

I just failed an audit on a question that should be closed. Why? Because it has 5 upvotes and no close votes: Look at the question. It's obvious it's one that the community likes, but is that a valid ...
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Remove cyclic close-votes [duplicate]

Situation: Question A have close vote "duplicate of B" Question B has closed as duplicate of A. Example (I seen 1 more before it) It's at least strange. What will happen if it will closed?
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There's no review audits for duplicate

FAQ says there's audits for Close Votes queue. But I've noticed there's no audits when you filter to duplicates only. Is it intentionally?
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Close vote review failed [closed]

Today, I failed the following review audit in the "Close Votes" queue: https://stackoverflow.com/review/close/2574688 From the question: I'm building a project on phonegap using JQuery ...
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Concerned about review audit on close review queue

I just failed a review on this question. This looks like a typical example of a question where the asker didn't show a sufficient attempt at solving the problem him/herself and should thus be closed ...
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Eeeeek! Close review audit shows you that the question is already on hold [duplicate]

I just got this audit for close votes. But it says me that the question is already on hold. I realized that this it an audit. And I clicked on Close. Hurrah! I passed an audit without any ...
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Audit has shown too much detail about the post making the audit obvious [duplicate]

Story: While doing some reviews on Close-Votes on SO I've been presented a question to review that got a This question was closed by xxx, yyy, zzz footer. I was surprised, but still I've reread ...
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Close vote review audit is broken - displays "on hold" while reviewing [duplicate]

I just reviewed this: https://stackoverflow.com/review/close/2385381 But while reviewing, it already displays the "put on hold as not a real question" section, and it asked: Should this question ...
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Skipping close vote audits successfully [duplicate]

I've been reading about close vote review audits for quite some time now. I used to think that these audits appear only for users who do not have either of Steward or the Reviewer badges; which is why,...
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Suggested close reason missing on review audit

While going through the review queue on Server Fault, I ran across a review which asked me: Should this question be closed as ? (more) It should indeed have been closed as not constructive. Upon ...
Michael Hampton's user avatar
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Is the UI inconsistent when doing a audit during close vote reviewing? [duplicate]

I thought I'd tackle a few close vote reviews. I was presented with a question about Wordpress running out of memory (sorry the actual question is now lost, though I remember it had 10 upvotes) and ...
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Close vote review audit flawed - fails without casting vote

Having just failed my first review audit from any of the queues, it was reviewing close votes; however, this audit was flawed in that I didn't even cast a close vote. Often I press the Close button ...
Jason Sturges's user avatar
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Close Vote Review Audits are too obvious

The other day, I got an obviously good question in a Close Vote Review. Even if I didn't read the question, +11 with 3 answers is a bit of a giveaway. Today I got one where the question was almost ...
Ward - Trying Codidact's user avatar
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How is this a failed audit?

I know this is by design! I don't need a moderator telling me that. I clearly labeled this as a bug - something that needs to be fixed, not a discussion. It's a bad audit, and that needs to be fixed! ...
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Are there actually review audits for the close vote queue?

Similar to Close votes review audits Not a duplicate of What are review tests (audits) and how do they work? I've run into audits on every queue except the close vote queue, on which I've done nearly ...
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