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Would raising the review limit help with the Close Votes queue? [closed]

We all know the problem with the close votes queue, but it seems the problem is people not reviewing enough. Whenever I had time, I would go through all 40 that I was given, but by then I wanted to do ...
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Reduce close vote expiration restrictions [duplicate]

The close vote queue currently holds 62k+ posts and has been rising for months now. The dropping numbers at the beginning are long history. What can we do to reduce the queue? One possibility would be ...
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Can we know the rates of adding and reviewing close votes?

Now there are 60.4k 60.5k 60.6k 60.7k close votes. My suggestion is to show the rates of voting to close questions and the rate of reviewing close votes on the review page. Like this: In the last ...
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Ideas for the close queue? [closed]

I am concerned on the growing close votes review queue size. I know it has been discussed before.. more than once, and I simply want to propose some ideas... Why not separate the single close votes ...
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Suggestion: close votes review queue [duplicate]

The size of the close-votes queue is 55k questions. 2,331 review were made today, It is decreasing but it really need some speed as it may take few years to match other review queues. I have some ...
Zaheer Ahmed's user avatar
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What can be done about the massive Close Votes queue on Stack Overflow? [duplicate]

There are (at the time of writing this; see edits at bottom of post) 54.2k questions with close votes on the review page on Stack Overflow. Unlike the other review tasks, which all usually return to 0 ...
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Why are there so many close votes to review and so few of the others? [duplicate]

In the SO Review page https://stackoverflow.com/review, I see the following stats for questions awaiting review: Close votes: 51.8k (and rising) Suggested edits: 10 (fluctuates, but rarely goes ...
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Close vote review queue reorganization proposal

There is a problem with the close vote queue that it seems it won't ever go away. There are always proposals to increase the number of allowed items you can do a day, but that alone won't help, as the ...
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How to make close-review queue less thankless [closed]

It's been hovering around 50k for months now. I'll give the benefit of the doubt and assume these questions are well-prioritized so that the totally irrelevant-to-close questions according to some ...
djechlin's user avatar
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Do we have a problem with follow-through on close votes? [closed]

I've been looking at the review queues lately, and something has caught my eye. The close vote queue just keeps growing. It hit 50k just a little ago, and is well on its way to 51. I've never actually ...
Linuxios's user avatar
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Increase close votes in /review [duplicate]

This is a feature request to increase the number of close votes in /review, and somewhat similar to close votes daily limit increase. I know the concern is robo reviewers in search of a badge, but it ...
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Stack Overflow review tasks: close votes [duplicate]

I have been doing review tasks on Stack Overflow for some time now, and I notice the following trend: there are at most 10 review tasks of each kind except for close votes where there at about 50,000 ...
Konstantin Dinev's user avatar
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2 answers
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Close votes daily limit increase [duplicate]

Due to large number of reviews waiting do be done - at the time about 46,000 - did you consider - maybe temporary increase daily close votes limit from 40 to higher number ? I know there is limit ...
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How slow is the Close Votes queue being processed? And how large should it get daily when the backlog is gone? [duplicate]

After a few months, the Close Votes queue's large backlog is slowly climbing down, but in the short term we still see regular upward spikes. I'm curious, when it reaches a manageable size, how ...
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question I answered in close votes review

I answered this question few hour ago. And I am reviewing some question and I got a same question for review. https://stackoverflow.com/review/close/1095438. Is it fair to vote to close question ...
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174 votes
25 answers
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Huge close votes review queue on Stack Overflow [closed]

Today, the size of the close-votes queue is 55k questions and growing. Is that a problem? Which action could be taken to clean it up? It seems to be growing faster than Stack Overflow members ...
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Let close voting from the review page not count towards your daily close voting cap [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Unlimited close votes from flagged queue On SO there is a steady number of close votes to be reviewed on the review page (59.3k). To review and possible help close these posts ...
PeeHaa's user avatar
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31 votes
12 answers
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How can the Close Vote review queue be improved? [duplicate]

Check the Review stats for Stack Overflow. Low quality posts is effectively empty, after previously having thousands and thousands of items. The suggested edits queue is kept low, after previously ...
Zelda's user avatar
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-1 votes
2 answers
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Unlimited close votes from flagged queue

Would it make sense to not count close votes cast from the 10K flagged posts page against the daily limit of 50? It seems like there's a never-ending stream of crap coming into Stack Overflow, and if ...
Adam Rackis's user avatar
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26,000 questions have close votes, now what? [duplicate]

In Close Votes expire too soon for low-traffic tags Jeff exclaimed: Brock, this is GENIUS! I am hereby using my super-upvote on this feature-request: Close votes (and probably reopen votes) ...
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