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How is it possible to review 1000 "Close votes" within less than 10 minutes?
Just by accident I stumbled upon a user profile and instantly noticed the high number of gold badges. When looking at the list of badges I wondered how it is possible to review 1,000 close votes ...
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Why are review audits so bad and are there any plans to improve them?
As a continuation of my comments here, which weren't understood too well and are more suitable as a separate question/discussion, I'm wondering why does anyone think review audits are any useful on ...
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Close votes queue is half-dead, can anything be done about it?
This is a screenshot of review stats taken today, but it has been similar for a while (bunch of useless questions I followed ended at 4 close votes), lately in the worst state with stats similar to ...
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How do we better educate new Reviewers in the Review queues?
It seems from comments that there may be confusion over who I think needs educating.
I mean the reviewers, not the users.
We currently have epidemic numbers of terrible reviews, with a stunningly low ...
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Review queue "Late answers" - flag when choice was "recommend deletion"?
When reviewing "Late answers", many of them are not actually answers but comments, other questions and so on (as you can select when saying "recommend deletion").
If I choose to ...
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Again: Failed Review Audit [duplicate]
I again have found a "late answer" review audit that I think is judged not entirely correct:
This answer suggests to use a permanent marker to colour over an LED light on a monitor, while ...
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Review Audit Test failed - Why
I just failed this review audit, but I think that it probably is designed wrong as I wanted to Share Feedback that the answer needs supporting information, as there is no source linked to the claim ...
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Is this answer spam?
I came across this answer in the First Answers review queue which I wasn't sure about, so I was hoping to get some insight from other members of the community.
On the one hand, it does kinda-sorta ...
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Bad user experience - needs looking at
The question referred to was rapidly re-opened, but this meta isn't about one specific question being closed as a dupe; it's about the user experience once that happens.
I'm a big boy now. I can ...
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Notify on Super User review queues
Is there any solution to notify my iOS devices that new items are populating the review queues?
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How should I handle this review task / answer?
While reviewing I came across this post: https://superuser.com/a/1359300/926024 and I'm very unsure on what to do about it.
Technically, it is an answer to the question, even though it is basically ...
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Should I perform a duck test when reviewing suggested edits?
Duck test:
If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.
In this case:
If it behaves like the Original Poster, then it probably is the Original ...
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What to do with same answers to different questions by the same user?
Not sure if this has already been discussed here, so here it goes. Often, when reviewing the Late Answers queue, I run into some answers that seem to be posted many times by the same user
I ...
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Why have the review audits not been fixed? [duplicate]
I try to volunteer some of my time to help out SuperUser SE and our community, but the review audits that wouldn't pass an audit themselves are still in the system.
For example, I just stumbled into ...
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Change request review comments
I got my first request asking me to approve some proposed changes to an answer I had given to a question.
I found it hard to choose the option "cause damage", but had to, since that was the only one ...
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Let's empty out the First Posts review queue!
There are currently 750 questions in the First Posts review queue. I would like to encourage people to help to clean it up.
If everyone who has enough rep to participate will review at least couple ...
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Best practice on first post review - should close immediately?
Reviewing first posts I often find ones not fitting to the site's rules.
I generally comment on them and ask for improvement, but I fear closing them as that could be considered as rude by the new ...
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Clarify the Low Quality Posts review queue for answers
In the LQP review queue, some of the answers meet the criteria for flagging for moderator attention. Some are not flaggable but rather involve quality issues that moderators are not expected to deal ...
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Best practice to review questions already commented
I sometimes have a bit of time and review new users' posts / answers. Often I see some which is already commented how to be improved. If I agree with the comment I don't want to write similar comment, ...
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Does this audit make sense?
In a first post rewiew I got the question:
What kind of power port is this
I added this comment: This question with exactly this picutres has been asked before, look here: ...
and got this result:
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Approve this question edit by another user?
I came across this edit in the suggested edit review queue. Original was from user utsav, edit from user3782114. Strange.
It could be someone mistakingly using a new account (in which case I'd ...
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Clarification on reviews
Over the last week I've done a number of reviews of new user first posts and late answers. I used as guidance, "Help your fellow members learn to use the site". With that in mind, I created lengthy ...
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When is it appropriate to participate in moderator-type functions?
The quick back story is that I answered a couple of bounty questions and suddenly found myself with enough points to participate in activities like first-post reviews. Now I want to contribute to ...
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How to determine priority for duplicate questions [duplicate]
Recently while reviewing close votes, I've come across retrograde duplicate flags. That is, the older of the two questions was the one being closed. Is this kosher? Does original post date determine ...
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Can tag wiki edit review be adjusted to make plagiarism easier to catch?
In the Suggested Edits queue, plagiarism is a rejection reason unique to tag wiki edits. Plagiarized edits can be caught by googling the tag wiki text or by googling the product and examining the most ...
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Why the Post appears which is already reviewed?
Whenever I go to review First Posts.
It shows the Posts that are already reviewed or edited by the Moderators or other 2K+ users?
Then why does it shows those Post that are already reviewed?
Any ...
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What's the policy on a request to add a comment?
While going through some suggested answer edits today I came across one which changed nothing but added the following to the bottom of the answer:
--- Anybody help me put my question to comment ...
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Test reviews within the past 30 days?
I recently had this as one of the 'test reviews':
As you can see, this was asked on the 9th June. It was last active 23 days ago.
I clearly remembered seeing this question recently (in fact, I ...
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Are there standard comments for reviews?
I just reviewed this answer.
I downvoted and entered the following comment:
Welcome to SuperUser! Please read through the FAQ for information on how to both ask and answer questions. I downvoted ...
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When is a short answer too short?
I recently reviewed this answer that was (likely automatically) flagged as low-quality because of its length:
https://superuser.com/review/low-quality-posts/234462
I feel that this was a good answer ...
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Should reviews limit be increased?
The number of posts to be reviewed does not stop growing.
Where once it was possible to clear these posts to zero, today that number has passed 700,
and it was lately standing even at more than 800.
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Where is the review button? [duplicate]
So I checked in today and realized that my review button is gone. Any Ideas?
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Change in minimum reputation for review task
I've been regularly reviewing posts on SuperUser for the past couple of months now. When I logged into SuperUser today though, I was not given the review option as always. On visiting the URL directly,...
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What to do with poor answers to opinion-based questions when reviewing?
IRC channel for computer network related queries seems to be opinion-based and should be closed. When someone answers the question like this one and I stumble on such answer when reviewing low-quality ...
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When reviewing edits, what is considered a minor change?
I'd like to know what edits should be rejected as too minor, and which ones should be accepted? I'm thinking about things like:
Changing just the misleading title
Editing formatting of menu options ...
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Is there a way to send a hint to someone who suggest lots of edits?
As you can see from my rep I'm rather new to the "review suggested edits" privilege, so I'm searching for some advice.
Currently there are a lot of edit suggestions from one user, which mainly ...
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Why do Suggested Edit Review audits often use the same user? [duplicate]
Whenever I get a Suggested Edit Review test, the proposed edit appears to always come from the same user account. The account belongs to a legitimate, albeit new, user.
This brings up a couple of ...
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Advice on approving edits
I have noticed a wave of improved tag edits in the review bin. I am seeking advice or awarness on the quality aspect of tag only edits.
Is this something that is OK on a large scale?
Note, I did not ...
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Did the flood gates open?
Just wondering as the question states. 323 new first posts in the review option so a lot of first time visitors?
On a side note, would having the ability to review more than 20 posts in a day be ...
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Why does this site have comparatively lots of posts for me to review?
Why do I find my review section to have comparatively lots of "Late review" and "First Answers" posts? On stackoverflow (which I believe is much popular than superuser) and android.stackexchange, I ...
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Reviewing Suggested Edits when question should be flagged
When reviewing suggested edits, I saw a question that I would have considered NARQ. The edit made to it made sense, mostly grammar and "politeness" we changed, but the question was still NARQ. Do I ...
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Low-Quality review queue
For low quality posts (doing the reviews), I am coming across many sort of "half answers" that don't deserve to be answers, and that I should not have to write paragraphs just for the person answering....
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Should not the "low quality posts" calibrated about answers containing just code?
I saw that part of the answers reported in the "low quality posts" are answers that report a command line code, or snippets for a bash script, and some of those answers are up-voted from more than two ...
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Is the question's last activity relevant for editing, or accepting suggested edits?
Is the last activity date of a topic relevant in deciding whether a given change makes the relevance threshold when editing, or deciding on a suggested edit?
Are smaller, less important edits fine ...
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Make reviewers explain why they accept a suggested edit
A few times already I've seen users in chat complain about the willingness of reviewers to approve very minor edits whose usefulness is questionable. Sometimes the edits were even counterproductive, ...
Daniel BeckMod
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