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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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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 do late answers appear in the First Posts review queue?

My understanding is that a "late answer" is a new user answering a question and a "first post" is a new user asking a question. If I'm correct why do late answers appear in the First Posts review ...
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Low quality question that can be improved - what should I do?

I looked at this other question: How to improve low quality answers consisting of only a code block?, which answers a lot of my questions about low quality answers. This is a simple one, or maybe two,...
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Advice for reviewing answers to closed questions

Situation: A question that invites opinion is asked. A few people give answers, one of them is a new user The question is closed before any voting The new user's answer appears in review. Options ...
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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 do the numbers next to "review answer" link mean? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: What is the min and max post quality score? What are these (seemingly arbitrary) numbers to the left of the "review answer" link supposed to indicate? In this image, the ...
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How am I notified that the peer review of my edit has been done?

I edited an answerer's answer, and it went to peer review. I can see my edit, of course, but how do I know whether or not it has been approved? I will accept the answer once I know that my edit has ...
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