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What are review tests (audits) and how do they work?
I sometimes receive this rather amusing message while reviewing in the review queues:
Congratulations!
This was only a test, designed to make sure you were paying attention. You passed.
If I am not ...
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How do suggested edits work?
When clicking "edit" I see:
Your edit will be placed in a queue until it is peer reviewed.
We welcome edits that make the post easier to understand and more valuable for readers. Because ...
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What are the review queues, and how do they work?
I see a "review" link on the top of the page, which takes me to a few "review queues".
What is a "review queue"?
What are the various queues for?
What can I do in each queue?
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What are the guidelines for reviewing?
About reviewing
The review queues contain posts that possibly need further action from the community, like improvement, closure, or deletion. By presenting those posts for peer-review, the system aims ...
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Close Votes review: I'm going on a strike! [closed]
I know this question is going to make me unpopular here – but I feel I have no other options.
I have been concerned by the size of the close votes review queue for quite a while.
When I ...
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I see "There are no review queues available to you" when clicking the review icon without any explanation
This has appeared as the dropdown on my review queue button today:
I can't find out anything about it.
What does it mean?
Why aren't there any review queues available to me?
How long it's going ...
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Why am I getting the message "You've failed too many recent review audits"? [duplicate]
Today I clicked on Review and saw the message below.
You've failed too many recent review audits - looks like you might need a break. Come back in in 7 days and try again.
Why does this type of ...
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"STOP! Look and Listen" audit tricked me
I have noticed this "STOP! Look and Listen" message when the system audits you by having you review something to check how you respond.
However, this audit came up and I was tricked. I wanted to up ...
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Our edit queue is full, try again in a few minutes [duplicate]
How many post edits can I do in a day? I think I have submitted less than 10 post edits today, but I am getting the following message:
Our edit queue is full, try again in a few minutes
What does ...
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Question flags, queues, edits, roomba, community♦, how does this actually work?
There is constant ongoing discussion about what flags to use when, review queue processing, review queue structure, flag handling, etc., but no one person seems to know exactly how this all works. ...
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What exactly happens with the button "Leave Open" (previously "Do Not Close")?
I've noticed and used the new (at least for me) button Leave Open, but I can't find any explanation as to the implication of clicking it.
I've found a highly voted status-declined question:
How ...
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When is a review task "completed" or "invalidated"?
I've noticed that the number of reviews required to remove a post from a queue varies. For example, to accept/reject a suggested edit, you need two votes of the same kind. If the votes are conflicting,...
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Spam edit approved
Here's an edit that replaced the useful link with some youtube video: https://stackoverflow.com/suggested-edits/346238
I'm not sure how else to go about flagging it, but clearly the editor needs a ...
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Lots of questions in the reopen queue [closed]
I've noticed in the last couple of days that there have been a few occasions when there's been a sudden surge of questions in the SO "Reopen" review queue.
Normally there's either no questions at all ...
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Reviewing low quality posts: when to delete [duplicate]
When reviewing low-quality posts, the help text explains:
Looks Good if nothing is wrong with this answer
Edit if you can fix all the problems with this answer
Recommend Deletion to ...
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Notification for reviews shows way too many
Since a recent change in notifications, I see more than I should:
I see no reason to see 134 posts are awaiting review, when there is literally nothing I can do about them. I think it is a bug, ...
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Change edit approval/rejection
I accidentally clicked reject on the suggested edit on this question(https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5726269/). I can't find the button to change it to Approve?
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How do the review limits work?
I got the brand new Custodian badge today for reviewing posts. Inspired by that, I reviewed some more suggested edits. Now I ran into a limit:
You have no more suggested edit votes today; come back ...
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Why are suggested edit votes limited?
Is there a reason why I can only vote on 30 suggested edits per day? I don't think there is a real problem that more votes are abused or something like that. But every time, I reach this limit and ...
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How is this user able to review posts so long after they were completed originally?
This is a revisit of Are certain users favored the opportunity to review posts? that seems to have grown stale without any solid answer.
Just recently I was baffled by a user's ability to review a &...
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"This edit would have to be a suggested edit" / edit button grayed out
A couple of times recently when I attempted to edit a post while reviewing it from the "First Posts" queue, I received the following message when I tried to submit the form:
This edit would have to ...
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Your review was inappropriate [closed]
I was recently reviewing first posts on SO when I was presented with this response:
Why does the C preprocessor interpret the word "linux" as the constant "1"?
Which it obviously ...
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STOP! Look and Listen [duplicate]
Whenever I review Close Votes, I sometimes stumble upon something that I don't think should be closed, but just to make sure I haven't missed something, I press the "Close" button to see how many ...
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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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How many failed audits trigger a review suspension?
I failed an audit in the suggested edits queue today. No excuses on my part, it was (in hindsight) an obviously invalid edit and I wasn't paying proper attention.
However, what I found odd is that I ...
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Failed a Reopen Question audit — sure looks like "Not a real question" to me [duplicate]
I just failed this audit here, which was shown as being closed as "Not a real question".
Seeing as the vote count was positive, I figured it was an audit, but I selected "Leave Closed" anyways ...
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If I see a spam vandalism suggested edit, should I do anything extra about it?
I just came across this suggested edit on Board & Card Games:
I've seen spammy edits like this on multiple Stack Exchange sites. They always follow the same pattern: the comment is an email ...
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What does the number next to the review link in the top bar actually mean?
What is the actual source of the number displayed next to the review link in the top bar? I found Notification for reviews shows way too many (via Review flag count is still wrong and similar) but, ...
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The review system suggested something was probably spam, what should I do when I see this?
While reviewing suggested edits and first posts by new users today, the review system did something new - an alert appeared that suggested that what I was reviewing was probably spam, and prompted me ...
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Why are "Late Answers" reviewed?
Why are late answers from new users reviewed?
This simple question might appear somewhere in the meta FAQ or questions, but after searching for several minutes I can't find the logic clearly ...
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What happens when a moderator clicks 'leave open' in the close-vote queue? [duplicate]
It takes 3 ordinary users clicking "leave open" in the close-vote queue to remove the question from the queue.
How about diamond mods?
Do they remove it from the queue in one click, or not?
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Strunk & White and Review Stats [closed]
Having gotten the Strunk & White badge, I can now see my review stats. The trouble is, I see nothing but zeroes both for today, and all.
In the past I've clicked through plenty of questions both ...
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How many 20kers use the LQRQ?
Since "20K+ users can clear out low-quality reviews faster than normal users, as it takes only 3 votes (vs 6 recommendations) to delete posts.", I would like to know how many 20kers actually use ...
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Did the new Close Vote reasons just wipe out existing close votes?
I had been watching a question that had a few close votes on it, and when I refreshed the page, the close votes were gone.
Then I went to the review tab, and found this:
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah? I ...
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See what happens to skipped reviews
I have recently received the privilege of reviewing First Posts and Late Answers on Stack Overflow. I have read What are the guidelines for reviewing?, which was mildly helpful in helping me become a ...
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Are certain users favored the opportunity to review posts?
Is there any algorithm on SO (that the community knows of) which decides when and how many posts a user can review? Let me elaborate below.
I sat down with a colleague of mine and we both clicked on ...
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What does 'Actioned' mean?
The Reviewer badge description is:
1000 reviews, over 200 actioned
What does actioned mean in this context please?
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Thank you for reviewing 20 close votes today! [duplicate]
So I did what I thought was my 40 reviews in the Close Vote Review Queue today. However, when I went to see about reviewing other queues, I noticed the message for the Close Votes said, "Thank you for ...
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Change in the way the first posts review queue works?
Was there a recent change in the way the first posts review queue works? I ask this because I am used to getting the reviews from that queue within the first five minutes after the question (or the ...
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What are the privilege thresholds for the /review section?
At what reputation levels do:
I finally see /review for the first time?
I get "upgrades" to review? (And, what are these "upgrades"?)
I know not all the tabs are visible from the get-go, and because ...
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Why can I see other users close votes?
I always thought that close-vote decisions should be private until they may result in an actual action and are in fact private. But I can see the review progress of other users:
Is this wanted ...
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In which order are delete voters shown?
When a post is deleted, a banner is shown indicating which users voted to delete the post:
What determines the order in which these users are shown? Often, it seems to be a chronological order (like ...
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Where are the review queue counters?
The review queue counters have disappeared:
Where are they?
When I did screenshot the Close Votes queue was not empty, if someone think so.
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Why does it take so long to review a flag suggested by a user?
Why does it take so long to review a flag suggested by a user?
When I flag a question or comment, some get a response quickly whereas some of them get a response after few or more hours.
Is there ...
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Can I review pending edits? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do suggested edits work?
Is there an area to review pending suggested edits from users with less than 2k reputation? As far as I know, I have to visit a question directly ...
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Unable to downvote *and* vote to delete from the review page as it used to work
As you know, trusted users can vote Delete instead of Recommend Deletion for answers with score ≤ 0 (see here, and ≤ -1 if not from review). Very often, a non-answer gets an upvote (so it has a score ...
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Daily review limit exceeded
I have just reached my limit of suggested edits for the day when I noticed someone else has 21, when the limit is 20, how can this be?
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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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How many failed audits to be put on quarantine?
From time to time I fail a review audit. That's another story, but after not having run in to an audit (and certainly not failing one) for over a week, and suddenly failing one, I got banned from ...
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Failed low-quality review audit
I recently came across this answer (to a question on implementing echo cancellation in Java) in the low quality review queue:
The only way to supress echo is to use "C" libary of AEC and ...
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