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.
48 questions from the last 365 days
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Display vote closure summary in the close dialog [duplicate]
We recently got the asterisk feature in the Close link of questions, highlighting if we already did a closure vote, which is great.
Yet, the closure dialog could also be improved in my opinion.
Right ...
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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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Is Stack Exchange planning to use AI to flag, review, and draft posts?
I just saw this rather concerning blog post. Amongst other things, it says that Stack Exchange is
exploring ways in which AI and ML [(Machine Learning)] can assist community users in writing drafts ...
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Display the reason for review invalidation in timeline's comment
For more transparency on review invalidations, in the post's timeline, can the "comment" column on the line of the invalidation contain the reason for the invalidation instead of being empty?...
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Allow us to flag reviews
Please allow us to flag reviews in the review queues. Possible use cases/Flag options for this could include:
Incorrect reviews/Suspected robo-reviewing
User persistently spamming queues with ...
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Allow high-rep community members to help review No Longer Needed comment flags
TL;DR Please, allow very-high rep users (50,000 rep on "full" rep levels, 10,000 rep on "beta" rep levels, and 5,000 rep on "private beta" rep levels) to help review No ...
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How should First Answers that are basically "never mind, I realized my question was invalid" be reviewed?
I occasionally run into questions like this one in the "First Answers" queue. The question is a good, high-effort question (for a new user), but the answer (posted by the original asker) is ...
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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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Can tag edits no longer allow you to submit closed posts for review in the reopen queue?
Currently, when editing a closed question, you can check “Submit for review” which I think places it into the reopen queue. An edit solely changing tags can do this as well. But, questions aren’t ...
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The review queues should not notify me to review the suggested tag wiki edits unless I get the privilege of it
Sometimes, when I click the review queues, a red dot is shown on the suggested edits review queue.
But when I click on the red dot, it shows me that “This queue has been cleared.”
From my view, ...
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Again unable to later review skipped low quality posts (answers) reviews, which is normally allowed for other review queues
The issue Unable to later review skipped Low Quality Posts reviews, which is normally allowed for other review queues was previously fixed, but has regressed.
As stated there:
When reviewing [Low ...
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Suggested edit reviewer stats are not formatted properly
Under Reviewer Stats, it says [Username] has [number] edit suggestions approved, [number] edit suggestions rejected, and [number] edit suggestions improved.
Example image:
That sounds like the ...
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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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Questions with active bounties still aren't eligible to appear in the close vote queue, and pending reviews are still invalidated upon bounty starting
Today, the system was changed to allow users to vote to close or reopen questions with active bounties. However, it looks like a detail was missed when making this change.
For a long time, questions ...
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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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Almost useless list of filtered options in review queue on mobile
A review queue can be filtered by tags and other options (e.g., close reasons). I believe that it looks fine on a desktop, but it's not OK on mobile. For instance, on enSO not all conditions are ...
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Inconsistent behavior in low-quality review queue with comment votes [duplicate]
I recently completed a couple of Low-Quality-Post reviews on Science-Fiction & Fantasy.
The one that turned up first allowed me to upvote the comment there.
The second one to turn up did not allow ...
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Hovering the pointer to get information about reviewers doesn't work as before [duplicate]
Until yesterday, if I was visiting the review queues of some Stack Exchange site and my mouse pointer was hovering over the icon of some user, I would get information about the reviews of that user: ...
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Voting for comments from the review queues doesn't work
If you click on the up arrow next to a comment from the review queue, the page scrolls and the voting doesn't work (printscreen is from Stack Overflow in Russian, but I think, the language isn't ...
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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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What happens to a user's pending edits when they subsequently gain enough reputation for their edits to be applied without peer review? [duplicate]
For example, on the Law stack 1,000 reputation earns one a privilege so that
Edits to other users’ posts are applied immediately
And
In addition, users with this privilege level can also begin ...
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Prevent reopen votes from expiring until a question is dequeued to improve experience for low-visibility queue items
The workflow for getting a question reopened is you edit to improve the question, use the 'Add to review' checkbox or cast a reopen vote yourself to push your question into the Reopen votes queue, ...
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Some audits are greyed out in the review queues
There is a bug concerning the audits, which make them very easy to spot. They have a grayish look, as in the picture below. It must be added that this occurs only with some audits, not with all of ...
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Reopen votes queue guidance contains outdated and/or inaccurate information
Go to any site /review/reopen then click Learn more about the Reopen votes queue.
Closed questions that have received at least one reopen vote, as well as posts whose bodies have been edited within ...
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Can there be suggested edit audits that should be approved?
There has been some discussion over the years about the quality of suggested edit audits and the possibility of there being audits where the correct action is approve:
Are there tests of suggested ...
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Comment @reply name suggestions are missing from review queues
Normally when I type a comment and type @ followed by the first letters of the name of another commenter, there will be an autocomplete suggestion that I can press Tab to accept:
However, I have just ...
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Upvoting comments from review queues often fails because t.state is null
When I try to upvote comments on review items from various queues network-wide, sometimes it works, but sometimes it fails. When it fails, a numbers sign # gets appended to the end of the review item'...
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Does it make sense to be able to unilaterally edit Qs and As but not be able to unilaterally approve edits?
I've just realized that while my current level of site permissions on one of the SE sites allows me to edit other people's questions and answers at will, it does not allow me to unilaterally approve ...
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Allow opting out of review queues notifications
Yes, we should all serve our military duty.
https://stackoverflow.com/help/privileges/access-review-queues
But for those that aren't interested, we shouldn't need to rely on hacks.
Opting out of ...
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Protected questions should have a higher reputation requirement for editing and approving edits
When a question is protected it requires a certain minimum reputation to answer it. At least on politics SE this is mostly used for questions that are highly politized or opioniated. And it works in ...
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Possible bug - Deleted question keeps reappearing for review
The question: https://stackoverflow.com/review/first-questions/35682256
If you try to do anything with it:
This post was removed due to a DMCA takedown and is not accepting new reviews.
And yet it ...
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Add an owner indicator to the suggested edit review after it has been reviewed [duplicate]
When a review has been evaluated by the question asker (OP) in the suggested edit review, it fails to indicate that it was reviewed by the question asker. Typically, the question asker's identity is ...
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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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Remove "edit and reopen" for low rep users on metas with "beta" privileges
On a child meta, when a user has the privilege to vote to close/reopen but not edit freely, they still have the option to "Edit and reopen", change whatever on the "edit question" ...
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Edit review page: looks like all tags gone
No big deal, but here with the side by side display, a quick look gives the false impression that all the tags were removed in the new version.
So perhaps it would be best to repeat them anyway, in ...
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Why is there no "duplicate answer" comment on late answer reviews? [duplicate]
When reviewing Late Answers, the Delete option description reads
Answer does not address the question, is a duplicate, or cannot be improved.emphasis added
as shown here:
However, when I select ...
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Low quality posts: Other Action
When reviewing answers in the Low quality posts review queue there seems like there should be an option for other action instead of just looks okay, edit, and delete/recommend deletion. I am asking ...
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“Please select a site specific close reason” when casting a “keep closed” vote in the review queue
I got this when I wanted to vote for a question to remain closed:
I picked the last option (intending to pick the generic off-topic reason), since I feel like the question ought to remain closed, ...
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As a moderator, "Delete" in the review queues clears custom flags that you may not have seen
Outside of the queue, it makes sense that a moderator deletion would clear any custom flags, since the wafflebar is at the bottom showing all the pending flags and a flag count for all flags. In ...
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System gave me an extra "Share Feedback" review but didn't share any feedback
Earlier today, I completed this review in the First Answers queue on Stack Overflow, choosing the "Share Feedback" option to add a "Community Bot comment." After I completed the ...
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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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Somebody needs to watch the health of review queues, network-wide
What I've noticed is that on many sites reviews fall by the wayside. They either don't get done, or there's some other major problem with how they're being done (e.g., robo-reviewing). This is most ...
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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 would a new post from a 1 rep user without any activity have its review invalidated?
I checked When is a review task "completed" or "invalidated"? but don't see any reason why these reviews would be invalidated. That post doesn't list any hidden actions (e.g., ...
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It appears that people are making simple edits and answers just for reputation points
I hesitate to ask questions on Stack Exchange as usually I will get lots of edits and answers, but usually the edits are formatting and spelling, and the answers are simplistic (e.g., read the ...
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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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