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Do spammers actually increase their Google "page-rank" from posting links on SE?
I've spent some time in the review queue lately, and I've noticed that quite a few bots/spammers try and sneakily hide links in answers/questions. Presumably they do this to boost the Google score of ...
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I clicked "skip" in the review queue, but I've decided that I want to vote "leave open". Can I do it?
There was this question up for closure in the review queue. I wasn't sure so I clicked "skip." But then, later, when I saw the question again, I decided that I'd like to vote "leave open". But since I ...
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How can I view reviews by a particular user?
Occasionally, when reviewing posts on the Stack Exchange sites where I'm active, after indicating an action, I would then go back to see the situation with that post. For example, I would go back and ...
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How do I refresh the review queue to clear non-existent reviews? [duplicate]
I'm a moderator at Robotics, and I have a persistent indicator for questions in my review queue, despite the fact that there aren't any.
I can open an incognito tab and log in, I can open in ...
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Why was this answer not deleted at the sixth Recommend Deletion vote? [duplicate]
The last I heard, if an answer in the Low Quality Posts review queue gets six Recommend Deletion posts, it gets deleted immediately, and the post is marked simply as 'deleted on ...', such as this one ...
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Can I query the SEDE for what fraction of close reviews are initiated by flags?
I would like to know what fraction of the recent close-vote review tasks were initiated by a flag cast by a user under 3k reputation (as opposed to tasks assigned to the queue by a close vote by a 3k+ ...
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Reviews: should I click No Action Needed, or Skip, when I can't edit?
When reviewing posts on a site I don't yet have edit privileges on, occasionally I'll come across a post that needs editing, but the 'edit' option is greyed out. My understanding is that this is due ...
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Close questions: no number next to the option
I've noticed this problem several times, I'm not sure if it's a bug though.
When I review the close votes, sometimes when I click the close button I can't see what the original closer has chosen as ...
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First Posts Review Queues: When are these posts no longer sent for moderation?
From reading this post on the review queues, I now understand how they work in general. However, the answer's author mentions
The First Posts queue contains the first few posts asked by new users (...
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Can anybody see how long a user spent on a review task?
I just went through this process on a small site:
Open a question and read it thoroughly
Think "hmm, that's a good question"
Notice the usercard
Think "hmm, I haven't seen that user before; I wonder ...
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Why is an answer shown instead of questions in review?
When I review a question on Physics using Chrome, I select Review First Question.
Often I get answers to review too.
I clicked
This isn't bad, but still, is it a bug?
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Why can't I nominate a tag for deletion when I review a wiki edit for it?
A user edits a tag wiki for a tag with 1 question on a whole SX site, and this comes up for my review. Now, the edit in itself may be fine, but what should I do if what I think should happen is for ...
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Suggested edit from question author to their own question goes to review queue
The only previous questions I could find about this here on Meta Stack Exchange turned out to be an edit by the question author through a different account (same name and avatar, but different userid)....
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Getting a close review in the low quality queue
I was reviewing in the low quality queue and got this.
as opposed to:
Possibly an audit glitch?
Is this a bug?
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Where's the close reason in an item in the re-open queue?
Often I see something in the reopen queue, and I'm scratching my head trying to understand why it was closed in the first place.
I then scroll up and down the page looking for the close reason, and ...
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How do you peer-review other people's edits? [duplicate]
Whenever I try to edit a post on a SE website, it tells me it will be peer-reviewed. How can I peer-review other people's edits?
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Can I ask that someone reviews my edits [duplicate]
I have enough reputation that my edits are immediately applied. Sometimes I still feel that they should be peer reviewed, just because I'm not completely sure that my edit was correct. On these ...
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Plain view for edit review in reopen queue
When a closed question is edited, it gets added to the reopen review queue. When you review the edit, the UI gives you three little sub-tabs: inline where you can see the changes highlighted in one ...
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Flag post that is already in low quality review queue - any effect?
Let's say I see an answer that should not have been one and I flag it as Not An Answer (NAA). On this site I have plenty of reputation and am able to use the Low Quality (LQ) review queue and cast ...
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How to deal with a suggested edit on a revision that has already been edited?
Based on this questions:
Suggested edits can be submitted even after a concurrent edit
Is concurrent editing detection working? (Answer: yes, but only if everyone is slow enough)
Today it happened ...
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How can one see how much time was spent on a review?
Is there a way to tell how long a reviewer spent looking at a particular review item?
I have seen people comment about "Reviewer Speedy Squirrel only spent 3 seconds looking at this review item ...
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What do I need to consider in terms of licensing if I make videos showing Stack Exchange posts?
I'm considering making voiced-over videos of myself working the review queues (for entertainment, to keep my concentration sharp, and maybe to help others). Of course, the posts in the review queues ...
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Do diamond moderator flag dismissals always remove posts from all review queues?
Recently there was some confusion in a meta discussion about whether a ♦ mod dismissing a flag (as helpful or declined) would remove the flagged post from corresponding review queues. Edits in the Low ...
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Suggested edit by OP in the review queue? [duplicate]
I just saw this edit in the Suggested Edits review queue over in Physics, and I'm rather confused as to what's going on.
The suggested edit is attributed to the OP - same username, same identicon, ...
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Find the time left before expiration of votes?
Trying to reduce the size of the close vote review queue on SO (currently at 7.8k), I'm wondering if there is a way to find the time left before votes begin expiring on a post.
There's some scripts ...
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Suggested edit approved despite being rejected five times
I would like an explanation for the aforementioned incident that happened on EL&U.
But before I begin, I tried looking for any possible duplicates using the search function; is:question suggested ...
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Why does my Review Button show 4 reviews but there are none? [duplicate]
From time to time, my Review Button will show a number of reviews to consider, yet when I click on the button fewer (always fewer, never more) reviews are shown? Sometimes the number resets to 0, ...
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Reviewing from mobile [duplicate]
I am under the impression that to review frrom mobile one can only go to the full site theme and review from it. Am I right? If so, is there any reason why there is no way of doing this from the app ...
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Is it possible to find a specific question in suggested edit review?
I know When a question is under a suggested edit the edit option temprory disapper from there.
So, is it somehow possible to find the question in https://stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/ ?
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Review Triage: How to protest against an audit? [closed]
This audit in the Review Triage looks like a legitimate question to me ("How to implement an upload progress bar?"). I was about to edit it to improve the English and remove the unnecessary link, ...
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Reopen Review Queue: Whats the difference between "Leave Closed" and "Skip"?
When working through the Reopen Vote review queue, we are presented with a couple of options:
What is the difference between the effects of the "Leave Closed" and "Skip" buttons?
When researching ...
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How can I know how if I have been reviewing correctly?
A while back, I had an audit failure, a right one at that. So, that prompted me to ask this question. On the same lines, in general, how do I know how I have been doing at reviews ? I can see the 'all ...
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How to handle answers that are duplicates of existing answers [duplicate]
The following answer hit the low quality post queue: https://stackoverflow.com/a/33472146/2312877
Now the answer is extremely similar to many of the already upvoted answers on the question, most of ...
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Why Can't I Flag from the Low Quality Review Queue? [duplicate]
I just spotted a spam answer in the VLQ review queue on Travel. I wanted to flag but there was no link. So I clicked Delete and then used the history to get to the question and flagged it as spam. But ...
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What governs whether I see a post in the Close Votes review queue?
I answered a question, and when my answer posted I saw there was a close vote on it. I thought that was odd, so I clicked Close to see the reason. I then clicked Cancel and, since I disagreed, headed ...
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Why did the review warn me it might be spam after I closed it as spam?
I just reviewed an answer on Travel. It was clearly spam and I flagged it as such. The moment I did, the review screen reloaded with the answer in red (because it had been deleted) and some stuff ...
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What's the point of review queue if I can't flag anything?
I had 2 flag declined (for marking these two posts low quality: 1 and 2 - which I still believe they are) and having that, I've the error message, when I want to flag another question as part of the ...
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Why do closed questions with rollbacks show up so strangely in the Reopen Queue? [duplicate]
At present, this Reopen queue entry shows up like this on the Revision tab:
- Jan 8 at 16:47 - Rollback to [8142c784-73d6-4387-9fa2-366dec3a5762]
No changes to display.
View this post's full revision ...
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Why does community user 'editing' a 2012 answer show up in late answer review queue in 2015?
What's with this late answer to an old question review?
I clicked 'No action needed' to verify that is was not an audit review (it wasn't).
My first reaction was to comment "Do not answer closed ...
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Diff doesn't recognise properly the link order changes
This is the diff result (as part of the review process for suggested edits):
and so on.
I believe the only change was a new link and as result the ordering changed (where the order is usually re-...
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Help Us improve the site - broken link - old blog post [duplicate]
Broken Link on the Review page on Stack Overflow
Steps to reproduce:
go to Stack Overflow
click the review link on the top
find the yellow banner on the right
click the link 'you' (pointing to ...
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Do suggested edits eventually age away if not reviewed?
Votes to close and such eventually age away if not enough people vote. What about suggested edits - if an edit is neither approved/rejected by 2 users, does it eventually timeout too? Or does it ...
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Why ask me to approve an edit to my own post *and* when I don't have the rep to?
I make a post.
Somebody suggests an edit.
I get notified that an edit has been made, and I get asked to approve it.
Then it tells me that I don't have the rep to (approve?).
…so it goes in the queue.
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How do Close Votes and Close Votes Review interact? Aren't Close Votes the same as Close Review votes?
We already have canonical answers on how Close Votes work and how Review queues work. This one is intended to hold one regarding their connection & interaction.
Close votes and Close Review are ...
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Took an action on a post already but the First Posts review queue sometimes doesn't activate "I'm Done" button
Why does First Posts review queue fails to detect an action already taken on a post earlier? This doesn't seem to be the case with Late Answers review queue.
See the screenshots:
(Click image to ...
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Weekly and monthly review statistics
You can only review 20 close votes per day.
Yet I've reviewed 90 posts this week, while the maximum should have been 3•20=60. Similiarly, I've reviewed 162 posts this month, while the maximum ...
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Can I increase my review reputation?
Is there any action we can do to increase our reputation in review?
For example, imagine I was banned from the review queues for 30 days. After this period, is there something I can do that will end ...
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Rejected edits by Community should not show up anywhere
A bunch of my edits were rejected by Community as
This edit conflicted with a subsequent edit.
However, when I try to edit something, it says:
Also,
5 of those are Community rejects due ...
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Is a user notified when their edit is improved?
While reviewing edits, there are times when you come across an edit that doesn't do exactly the right thing, but is still of value. An example would be when someone has found a broken link, but puts a ...
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Is it expected for reviewers to verify all information in a suggested edit?
Most of this is a copy from my meta post here at Open Source:
I recently made a review that you can find here (Note that the "Emacs" spelling changes were made after I had done the review). ...
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