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Make the review ban be specific to the queue where I failed the audit
If you're not paying attention and robo reviewing in one queue, why shouldn't we use that as evidence that you'll do exactly the same thing in every other queue?
The point of stopping you altogether ...
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Can moderators see the close/reopen _votes_ (and _not_ the reviews)?
Yes, diamond moderators have access to a special timeline on posts which does list all close and reopen votes (and who cast them) inside it, including any that have expired or otherwise no longer ...
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Stop using real accounts in suggested edit audits
Wait, merely having an account on a site that uses audits means I could have actions falsely attributed to me? That's bad, and waiting until after the audit is complete to reveal the truth -- to ...
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Add an "I don't understand" option for review audits
Qualities of a good Audit
90%+ people pass without problem
50%+ of people who fail understand why
Qualities of a bad Audit
50%- people fail (might as well let a nickle do my reviews!)
50%+ of ...
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Review Audit failed when "late answer" answer is a duplicate
The post in the audit was the accepted answer. You flagged that answer itself — not a duplicate answer, since in all likelihood no such duplicate was ever posted — and, of course, if it ...
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How to contest a review ban?
You contest a review ban by posting your question about the issue, together with a link to the disputed review, on the meta of the site where you've received your review ban.
In your case, that's ...
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Review audit questions in a foreign language need a translated version so we can easily see if they are SPAM, migratable, or should simply be deleted
No, you're supposed to reject posts in a wrong language to the site. Requires editing means "The post is almost OK, it just need some formatting improvement". It should NOT be used when the ...
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What happens if I skip a review audit?
Generally, nothing. As with any other review task, you should skip an audit if you're just not sure what to do.
The exception to this is if you only skip audits. And you skip them consistently. I ...
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Review Triage: How to protest against an audit?
While I'm in full support of a way of disputing audits, that was actually a pretty good audit.
The post was spam, and you should not have edited it. The link went to an Iranian commerce site and had ...
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Why did flagging as very low quality result in audit failure
This happened to me too. Well, twice actually.
While my first linked answer applies in its entirety here, as a summary
there are just a few things that are very important:
This is a bug (hacking the ...
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Review audits in post timeline
The point in keeping them is to see how often posts are being picked out as review audits and whether or not people are passing or failing the audits.
Let's say someone complains that the audit is ...
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Closing a question that's being used as a known good audit should immediately remove it from the audit pool
I dug into this and implemented a fix that I think should resolve the issue. Basically I added in a check when a question is closed: is this question a current audit and is it a "known good post&...
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Review audits should not be counted to the count of daily reviews
Review audits are useful and should count (credit) towards the 'total number done', but shouldn't count (decrement) against the 'total number available'.
As soon as the audit is revealed you should ...
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Audit fail message and our more friendly community
The message
STOP! Look and Listen.
This was an audit, designed to see if you were paying attention. You didn't pass.
does not tell me why I didn't pass. It does not tell me how to improve. It does ...
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Incorrect syntax highlight in review audit
That's an interesting combinations of effects...
Review audits can and do change the tags on the question as part of the audit (in addition to changing the score and other details of the post to make ...
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Review audit detection scripts - acceptable?
The purpose of audits is twofold:
As an educational tool to help you learn to use the particular review queue.
As a tool to prevent mistakes due to fatigue or carelessness.
If you already know how ...
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Review ban reason and warnings
This was a manual ban by a moderator. That is the only way to get a review ban without failing audits.
This is also why you didn't get a warning. Moderators don't have to give warnings to bad ...
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How should you handle reviews when out of flags?
My mother used to say, "If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all." Same thing applies here.
Never do something wrong just because you can't do it right.
This applies to ...
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Upvotes on passed review audits disappear
There are multiple problems with preserving actions that were conducted on a review audit which make it a no-go for keeping upvotes that were cast there. You are welcome to return to the post and cast ...
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Closing a question that's being used as a known good audit should immediately remove it from the audit pool
I'd go further: any action that would invalidate the audit should remove it from the audit pool, whether that's a downvote or a close vote.
People often attempt to fix bad audits by opening the post ...
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Constantly voting not like others in review queues
There are two different types of review bans, depending on what triggered them:
algorithmically by failing honeypot review audits
manually by intervention of a human moderator
I believe that the ...
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Review Triage: How to protest against an audit?
Without the link, and the "Friends if anyone knows please advise. Thanks." what you have left is an essentially worthless question. Assuming it was on Stack Overflow, what language? What context? (web?...
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Why did flagging as very low quality result in audit failure
This was my fault and should be fixed now. I posted some more details here.
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Review ban reason and warnings
does this message means I was ban by moderator?
Yes, you were manually banned by a moderator when he somehow noticed that review you made (maybe via a flag, maybe be change), this explains the delay.
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How do I challenge an audit failure?
If you're banned from review due to a highly questionable audit failure, you can flag the post responsible and let moderators know about it. There's little we can do to remove most audits from ...
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Be more friendly to hard-working reviewers
I think part of the idea is ... you shouldn't be doing that many reviews a day, and reviews should be spread out amongst many users. A review ban might be the universe's way to tell you to take a ...
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Exclude posts with valid "rude or abusive" flags from appearing as review audits in all review queues
This will be fixed in the next build.
We were already excluding these posts in audits that explicitly dealt with offensive content but not in other queues that might need it. I've copied the ...
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Is it just me, or is this an obvious way to see in an instant whether or not a post to review is a test?
For example, if I have an Opinion-based filter, whenever I see a post that have been flagged as Needs details or clarity, I know it's a test (I enjoy clicking on the link to text posts before casting ...
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Can I increase my review reputation?
No, there is no method to get out of a review ban early.
Take into account that a review ban is there to protect the system from reviewers who have not passed fail-safe checks in the review process. ...
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Why aren't "helpful flags" considered for review audits / suspensions?
The purpose of audits is to help you get better at reviewing, not to help you get better at reviewing audits.
That should not be a particularly controversial assertion... Therefore,
The purpose of ...
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