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Reviewing Low Quality Answers by New Users that Should be Comments
Sometimes, while I am reviewing posts in the low-quality posts queue, I come across some answers by new users that are actually meant to be comments, i.e., they either ask for clarification of the ...
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Since when do Late Answers reviews require multiple users to complete?
I think this link speaks for itself. Review items in the Late Answers queue always used to require only one user to be completed, and the only way you'd see more than one reviewer on the same review ...
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Can editing a closed and deleted question send it to the reopen review queue?
On an SE site where I'm a regular, I’ve noticed several closed and deleted questions that might be worth reopening due to recent changes in site policy / community consensus. Because there’s no ...
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What amount of time is between submitting a post to review queue and until the post is getting reviewed?
Is there a rule for posts that are in repeated review for how much time is between editing and submitting for review and a review being started?
Is there a defined wait time until a review can be ...
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Turning thumbs, waiting for a review audit test
As described in this other question, sometimes the creation of an audit test takes several seconds, making it a real giveaway.
Is there a way to improve the performance?
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What factors could prevent a question from appearing in the reopen review queue for a specific reviewer?
Recently, I was one of five users to vote to close a question (timeline link) on Movies & TV SE. After it was closed, I realized that my chosen close reason didn't accurately apply (my bad), so I ...
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What determines the visibility/priority of review tasks?
Based on my observations, not all review tasks are created equal.
I have noticed that in the review queues, even though there are hundreds or thousands of possible review tasks the system could choose ...
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Close votes on "review first questions" [duplicate]
When I get questions like this one in the "first questions" review queue, what am I supposed to do?
The question had already been answered by the author in the post's comments and it was a ...
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I have three pending suggested edits but there appears to be only one post in the Suggested edits queue
I have three pending Suggested edits on ELL, however there appears to be only one post in the Suggested edits queue:
Here are the three links to the pending suggested edits: here, here, and here (...
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Why am I being prompted to help improve the site when I don't have the reputation yet to access any review queues?
On Meta Stack Overflow, mousing over the review queue menu item on the top navbar displays the tooltip "Review queues - help improve the site" together with the hand cursor, so I click and ...
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Why can a >1K user not see up and down votes on deleted questions and answers accessible to them from the history of a review queue?
I was recently going through the history of my First Questions and Triage review queues to see how I am doing. I clicked on "Looks OK" of a deleted question which took me to the screen with ...
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Since when are users no longer able to view votes on their own pending edits?
I recall in the past that if you suggested an edit, and then clicked on the link to the review task, you would see that your edit was pending review/you were not able to review that item, but you ...
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What causes a review task to become unavailable to a specific user?
Sometimes, review tasks are not reviewable to specific users, but are reviewable to others. Sometimes I am not offered review tasks and if I track them down manually I see:
You are not able to review ...
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Why are Reviewer stats shown only for the suggested edits queue?
What is it about the suggested edits queue that users may see (by clicking Reviewer stats) the number of reviews a reviewer has made? Alternatively, what is it about the other review queues that users ...
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How can we check how often questions sent to the close queue age out?
My site is dealing with a rather long close vote review queue and we believe reviews are regularly ageing out. We want to address the problem in Meta and motivate it with stats over time about how ...
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Community Bot "Feedback" Comment Posted but NOT from a Review?
I recently came across this SO answer in the "First Answers" review queue (FA). As it is not really in my field, I would normally have skipped it but, just as I was about to do so, I noticed ...
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Review queues: After only upvoting, should I choose "Looks OK" or "Other action"?
I recently started using the "Late answers" queue on Stack Overflow, but I suspect my question is relevant for other queues as well (though the answers may differ).
I am unclear about the ...
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How can I check the progress of my question being reviewed in the Reopen queue?
I have a question, asked 22 hours ago, that is closed.
Closed 21 hours ago.
This post was edited and submitted for review 20 hours ago.
20 hours since my edit, I checkeed that the question is still ...
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Is there a setting to remove the red dot regarding review queues?
Ever since I hit 3k reputation on Math Stack Exchange, I have been seeing the red dot in the navbar right near the review queues button for close votes. I see it almost every time I visit the site.
I ...
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Red bullet indicator appears but (I think) I am not banned [duplicate]
I see a red bullet in one of my review queues (see attached screenshot). Reading from other posts on this site, I understand that this might mean that I'm (or, more properly, I was) banned from the ...
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Is it "Low quality answers" or "low quality posts"? [duplicate]
I haven't visited Stack Overflow's review queues in a while, but this morning I did (thanks winter-bash-2022!), and noticed that unlike other sites I request (Super User, Open Source SE), Stack ...
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Selecting a new close reason from the site-specific list is not being recognized in Reopen review? [duplicate]
I was trying to review a post in the Reopen queue. I felt that the edits made had changed it from being "needs details" to off-topic for a site-specific reason ("real-world science ...
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Why were the First Answers and Low Quality Posts reviews for this answer invalidated for no apparent reason?
What happened to the reviews for this (now) deleted answer? Why were they both invalidated without any visible trace? I looked at When is a review task "completed" or "invalidated"?...
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What are the policies with regards to edits that are submitted to a post, when no action is taken from the OP?
I read this answer, and noticed this paragraph:
With regards to the OP's approval of an edit, if the edit is not approved by the OP it will most likely be reversed or rolled back after a while. If ...
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What is the threshold for the review-needed indicator (the red circle) in the First Questions and First Answers?
In the dropdown for review, we sometimes have an indicator (red circle) showing that there are many reviews - and that this particular review queue needs attention.
The thresholds are mentioned in ...
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Have covert review audits been secretly rolled-out on some sites?
Recently, in the last few weeks I've noticed a shift, reviews turning-up particularly in the reopen queue which show no indication of having been edited to be any more on-topic. (Of course, they've ...
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Is there a way to get my edited post to be reviewed faster?
When I click on the "Edit" button in a post in stackoverflow.com, I always get a red box saying
Suggested edit queue is full
Where can I find my last edited post that is in the queue to be ...
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How does this close votes review have 5 votes already but is still open? [duplicate]
I was going through the close votes review queue on Arqade, and came across this review which apparently has 5 votes to close already (the number needed to close a post on Arqade), yet its still in ...
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Same First Answer reappears in queue after being deleted
I just opened a First Answer in the review queue on English Language Learning. I switched tabs to read the question and gloss over the other answers. When getting back to the answer, it had been ...
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Why didn't my edit go in the Review Queue? And if it did why didn't I get +2 rep? [duplicate]
I edited this question to show the current terminology, and was expecting the canned response saying it was waiting for peer review - however the question updated immediately.
My rep at the time was ...
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Review queue sizes are incorrect
The review queue sizes on the /review page on Stack Apps (and maybe other sites as well) are off. When I visit https://stackapps.com/review/ in a private browser window (or while logged in with a ...
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Pending Edits, and Limit on Number of Edits [duplicate]
I am trying to Edit the questions posted on Computer Science. But, I am receiving this:
You have too many pending edits. Further edits cannot be submitted
until prior edits have been approved.
My ...
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Should a comment lock invalidate a reopen review?
Does anyone know why this question's reopen review was invalidated?
Can I say "the US people"?
Timeline (before I cast the third and final reopen vote):
Post is closed
Someone cast a reopen ...
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Unable to edit duplicate lists from the first questions review queue, after closing a duplicate question
As a gold tag badge holder, I have the ability to unilaterally close questions (with those tags) as duplicates and, by extension, I also have the ability to edit the duplicate links on those questions....
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What determines the "reason" for leaving closed in review that's shown in the close notice?
Today, when reviewing to leave a question closed in the reopen queue, there's an option to select which close reason still applies to the question, or that the original close reason was not resolved. ...
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Why is "Your daily reviews" count shown when I am not logged in?
I was going through one of my suggested edits without logging in and I noticed this:
Why is the "Your daily reviews" count shown to me when I am not logged in?
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What happens when a late answer is upvoted?
I have a doubt concerning the way the Late Answers review queue works. Suppose that, at the moment that an answer is posted, it qualifies to be sent to the Late Answers review queue. That is (please ...
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The in-review-queues edit layout is different from the normal (out-of-review-queues) edit layout on mobile. How can I always use the former?
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I can't always be in front of a computer, so I sometimes use an Android/Apple phone (with Firefox browser) to use Ask Ubuntu. There I have noticed that when I edit a post in the review-queues ...
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Is it intended that the votes from a previous (invalidated) review combine with the votes from a new review to leave a question closed?
TL;DR: I completed a Reopen votes review by myself, as a non-mod, and it seems I was able to do so because my "Leave Closed" vote combined with two others from a previous, invalidated review....
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How does review work? [duplicate]
I would like to know how the review system works.
I guess the minimum reputation required for a review task is 500 or 2000, but I have seen many Stack Overflow accounts with less reputation which have ...
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What causes "The community is reviewing whether to reopen this question as of"?
I noticed a closed post today that apparently has not been edited nor has any pending reopen votes, but shows the message:
The community is reviewing whether to reopen this question as of X hours ago....
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Which automatic improvement checks are performed when writing a question?
Before posting a question on a Stack Exchange site, I hit the "Review your question" button. Then, on the right side bar, a message is displayed:
Step 2: Review your question
✅ Your ...
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Do posts in the first answers and first questions queues age out?
Do review items in the First questions and First answers queues age out of the queues?
I tried finding this info in What are the guidelines for reviewing? but it doesn't say. Neither could I find the ...
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Why was an 'action taken' (aka the "I'm done" option) removed as a review-closing action?
Example: I still had to choose a canned comment
Why (as in rationale, and not a feature request) was an action taken (e.g. voting, commenting, and/or raising a flag) removed as a review-closing ...
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When does a first post review get invalidated? [duplicate]
I recently noticed this review. It was invalidated and I could not understand the reason for invalidation.
After a bit of searching in Meta Stack Exchange, I found this answer in which it was ...
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The canned comments left by the Community user are less than helpful, in some cases [duplicate]
I've seen a few examples:
A comment on a post about licensing on Software Engineering indicating that the post needs clarification. The post is clear enough to know that it is off-topic. Editing for ...
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What does the blue dot in front of the review queues mean?
I noticed a new blue dot in front of some review queues. What does it mean?
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Review queue "First questions" does not show any message when reaching the maximum number of daily votes
I know that this is not a serious problem, and I was very hesitant to report it or not. I am not sure if it only happens in Stack Overflow in Spanish which is where I am doing the reviews.
The problem ...
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Review audits are not working in sync with filter in First posts review queue [duplicate]
I was in the First posts review queue reviewing posts. I noticed this suddenly:
Link: https://askubuntu.com/review/first-posts/1163303
As you can see in the screenshot, I have used the filter option ...
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Why can't I improve / reject and edit this suggested edit?
I just encountered a suggested edit on a post that is possibly spam. Given its score, it's likely to have a couple of pending spam flags already. What is interesting, and a possible bug, is that the ...
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