Questions tagged [review]
For questions about the /review path where users can view and act on posts by other users that the system thinks may need attention.
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Custom comment when sharing feedback doesn't warn of the character limit and simply truncates the text
When reviewing and sharing feedback with a custom comment, the little box thing where I type the comment doesn't warn of the 500-character limit, nor does it give me a countdown of how many characters ...
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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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Translations in reopen review queue about a "reason" are not used
If you don't select a reason in post reopen review queue you will get messages (depending on the popup level):
You must select a reason before submitting.
You must select a community specific reason ...
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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 did I earn access to review queues when I know squat about chemistry? [duplicate]
I just got access to the review queues for chemistry.stackexchange.com and I don't know jack about chemistry. I have no formal training on it except for maybe AP Chemistry. The class made me hate ...
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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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What can I do if an answer in the "First Answers" Review Queue is objectively wrong?
All the options presented to me through the UI do not seem to address the situation correctly. Here is a screenshot of the options available to me.
And here are the Share Feedback options.
The only ...
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Review completion does not always show as S (simultaneous dates) with corrosponding action
When 2 or more history items occur at the same time, hovering over the timestamp should show an S next to all of the simultaneous actions. Example:
In this example, the First answers review task was ...
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Don't count automatic review comments posted by the Community user as the "last moderator action" on a post, since they are triggered by normal users
On moderator dashboard each item can contain a last moderator's reaction. That helps a lot prior handling that item by another moderator. But sometimes it's confusing (image taken from SO in Russian):
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Fake alert in Review Queues [duplicate]
That's probably a bug, but I still don't see what could be causing it.
I'm mostly active on Ask Different (Apple Stack Exchange site) and I often check the Review Queues for new posts/suggested edits ...
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Don't let me do fake downvote in LQP queue history's review task [duplicate]
I was going through my review history and clicked on a recent review task link: https://meta.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/86500
Though I had previously downvoted this post, the downvote ...
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Suggested edit made by unprivileged editor not shown to editor in Review Queues
When reviewing first questions or answers sometimes there's a edit that is necessary.
When you don't have enough reputation your edit gets reviewed, but there's a message that you can see your edit; ...
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Automatically upvote an existing review queue canned comment instead of duplicating it [duplicate]
I’ve noticed that if multiple users select the same canned comment in the review queues, this results in duplicate comments. This might come across as rude and annoying to the recipient, who will get ...
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No highlighting on tabs in review queue
Initially here the Revision tab is select and highlighted:
Since I clicked the tab (even the current one) highlighting is disappeared:
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The new Code of Conduct didn't address significant feedback given. Why ask if you won't incorporate feedback?
Some of the content is unnecessarily verbose. I had pointed some examples out during the review of the draft (both when it was shared with moderators and again in the public review). The "...
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Ability for users without the moderator tools privilege to see deleted posts they reviewed doesn't work for "Share feedback" reviews
In the review queue history, when you open a review task you performed, you can always see the content of the post, even if that post is now deleted and you don't have the privilege to view deleted ...
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Duplicate "This post has been deleted and is no longer viewable" banner when reviewing a first answer
When reviewing a first answer, you only see the answer and its comments on the 'Answer' tab; nothing related to the question. However, if both the question and the answer get deleted while reviewing, ...
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Skip the extra popup confirmation window "Nominate this question for reopening?" to streamline the "Reopen votes" review process
I was going through questions in the review queue Reopen votes: Vote whether or not to reopen closed questions. I clicked on Reopen.
I expected this to reopen the question. Instead, I got a popup ...
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Blocked from editing due to pending review
Currently a pending edit needs two approvals. I have edit permissions, but review queues are apparently slow today, and I cannot make some necessary edits because a second person needs to approve the ...
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Broken translations on Post Review History
On post review history (moderator pages) some translations not used (but exist in Traducir), other part not in Tradicir sources at all. Link for developers to look at the following page.
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Leaving a Question Closed for a Non-Existent Reason
Things on the Stack Exchange network change over time, as they should.
One relatively recent change was that made to the workflow in the "Reopen votes" review queue, when a reviewer chooses ...
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Add back the highlight on the author's name on suggested edit reviews to their own posts, or indicate the author otherwise
In the old UI for the review queues, it used to be that if the author reviewed a suggested edit to their own post, their name would be highlighted:
(Source)
However, this is no longer the case:
This ...
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Attempting to suggest an edit while the suggested edit queue is full using the "Edit" button within a review task fails silently [duplicate]
I'm reviewing this First answers item and I attempted to edit it, but the suggested edit queue is full.
I prefer to use the "Edit" menu button as opposed to the "Edit" review ...
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Anonymous user can see deleted post in Suggested edits queue [duplicate]
If a post that has a suggested edit in review gets deleted, anyone can still see the post via the suggested edit, including anonymous users.
Is it expected behavior that anonymous users (not logged in)...
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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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Edit stuck in limbo - what do I do?
I edited my question (How do I resolve Wix form 'Couldn't submit due to temporary issue' error?) to reverse changes someone had made (and seemed unhelpful).
The review of my edit has been ...
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"Score of" loses translation after voting on question
In the review queues the score of a question (related to the currently reviewed item) is displayed, e.g. in the low quality posts queue:
Here all looks fine until you make a vote on the question. ...
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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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Congratulations Text for "Known Bad" Reopen Queue Audits is Wrong
On successfully passing a "known bad" audit in the Reopen Votes review queue (i.e., correctly voting to "Leave Closed"), we are presented with the following congratulatory banner:
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Reviewers should be able to communicate with each other about a review task
TL;DR:
Reviewers of a post should be able to comment on the task in a separate comment section visible to everyone but only actionable by the reviewers, 10k users and moderators.
Communication between ...
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Flag to put a closed question in the Reopen queue (just like we have for the Close queue) [duplicate]
A few days ago, I found an interesting question on Music.SE that was closed. I wanted it to be reopened, but I couldn't find any typo or small problem that I can fix with an edit to put it into the ...
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Minor wording change in "Access review queues" privilege explanation
I recently was awarded the "access review queues" privilege on a Stack Exchange site and I noticed that on privileges list screen, the privilege is described as "Access First posts and ...
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Clarify meaning of “Looks OK” in the Low Quality Answers queue
In the Low Quality Answers queue “Looks OK” option has a description
It is an honest attempt at answering the question and is not low
quality.
In most of cases when a reviewer wants to click “Looks ...
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Suggested edit reviewers can unilaterally approve or reject unlimited edits per day
When a user completes a review item, a POST request is made to /review/task-reviewed/<review-id> supplying (among others) the reviewer's choice (taskResultTypeId).
In the Suggested Edits queue, ...
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Can we have a question's tags be displayed at the top in all review queues and tabs?
When reviewing items, I often find myself switching tabs, between e.g. 'Answer' and 'Question', not in the least because to properly assess the quality of i.c. an answer, I need to know what the ...
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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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Answer appears multiple times in first answer review queue [duplicate]
I just came accross an answer that seemingly appeared multiple times in the same review queue. If I trust the timeline it was three times. First reviewed by two people, then again by one who already ...
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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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Add/fix links to comments in review queues
When reviewing a post, the comments are shown underneath, which is great, but there's a difference: on the Q&A page, the timestamps (x units of time ago) are clickable and contain a direct link to ...
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Review tab indicator disappears
A review item often has tabs, like "other answers" and "question". There is a background on the selected tab at first, but clicking on another tab removes that. Here's an example:
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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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Check pending edit limit before allowing user to initiate a new edit [duplicate]
I've been reviewing questions in the First Questions review queue on Stack Overflow and frequently find it necessary to make minor edits to questions. I understand that I am limited to a specific ...
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In the re-open votes queue, I cannot close as a community specific reason because "You must select a reason before submitting." [duplicate]
I'm reviewing the close votes. If I re-close as any other reason it works fine, but if I close as a "community specific reason" I can't, no matter what option I select.
I'm on Firefox 108, ...
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Can not select suitable item in the Reopen queue
I stumbled over this in the reopen queue on https://stackoverflow.com/review/reopen/33390644.
My intent was to choose "Leave Closed", but IMO, the close reason should be "Not a question ...
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Review queues on iOS allow selecting inactive option 'Pending edit'
Normally, in the First/Late Questions/Answers review queues, when there is a pending edit to the post, the 'Edit' option is replaced with 'Pending edit' which can't be selected:
However, in Safari on ...
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"There are too many pending edits on Stack Overflow" Is there an auto-deletion?
Core considerations are at the bottom if you're short on time.
Is there any sort of auto-deletion of suggested edits after a certain amount of time? It gets pretty annoying to have to wait for ...
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For edit-suggestors with a streak of N approvals, only require one approval for their next suggested edit
Proposal:
If a <2k user's past N suggested edits are all approved ("good edit streak"), make their following suggested edits only require one approval.
For rejections, I can't think of a ...
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