Questions tagged [review]
For questions about the /review path where users can view and act on posts by other users that the system thinks may need attention.
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What happened to the "Improve Edit" and "Reject and Edit" buttons on this review?
I just reviewed this suggested edit, and while doing so, I noticed that the Improve Edit and Reject and Edit buttons were absent; only Approve and Reject were there. I haven't been suspended from ...
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Review post test
Does Super User employ review tests like these (screenshot below) or just depends on Moderators' opinions for reviewers?
I never encountered such a test on Super User.
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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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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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Moderator Binding un-votes?
We all know that moderators have final say in Delete or Reopen or Close votes, but what about when they don't agree? If there are 4 people who vote to close a question, and the moderator goes through ...
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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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Content of low quality posts is shown as "1"
The content of several posts is shown as "1". These appear to all be candidate low quality posts with a negative score on the review page:
Opening the post and clicking edit reveals the proper ...
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TIL: Answering 10 minutes after a question is asked is "late."
I just had this question to review in the late answers queue. It turned out to be an audit, which is all well and good.
But according to the post time mouseover, it was posted at
2016-10-16 16:57:...
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Review count goes down sometimes
Here is an example (Tom's count went down).
Beginning:
End:
It almost seems like I "stole" reviews from Tom, but that would be strange.
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Review - First questions - mixed answers and questions
First questions review page lists both answers and questions, mixed. That's annoying, as it's tempting to flag answers as "not question" and vice versa, until realizing that it's actually answer.
Why ...
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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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Option to show possible duplicates in the review pane?
Anyone else thing that this would be a useful feature?
Currently, when I look at a question, I use the script that can be found in the accepted answer here to do that. It works pretty well as a rule.
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SU Review, how to stop "watching" a tag
On the review page, I selected a tag to see the questions needed review for that specific subject. But now, I can't find a way to go back and see all the tags combined.
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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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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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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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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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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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In the review queue, what the difference between "recommend deletion" and "delete"?
When I recommend a post for deletion, sometimes after doing so I notice that other users have "Recommended Deletion", and sometimes one or two users simply have "Delete" by their name:
What's the ...
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Bug on /review already closed
On the cast close vote page, this came up:
No potential close reason listed, and its already shown as closed. Any ideas what happened, or is this to be expected?
question link: https://superuser.com/...
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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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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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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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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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Bug or change for close votes?
We are limited to 20 close votes a day (I guess depending on points).
Normally, when we reach that threshold, a message appears on screen alerting we've done all the voting we're allowed. At this ...
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Cannot edit posts when reviewing first and late Q&A
Sometimes when I am reviewing the late and new posts queue I am unable to edit the post currently being reviewed. First I thought this might be because someone else has made an edit waiting for ...
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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, ...
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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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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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Review pane in the meta page
It seems odd that after an item is reviewed in the pane, it does not go away, and it stays in the pane (after refresh).
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Viewing change history to questions on superuser.com
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As a regular user (i.e. not the OP or subsequent editor), is it possible to see what changes were made to a question (or one of its answers) on https://superuser.com?
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In a search for ...
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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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Old Community wiki Answer not an answer
Reviewing old posts, I came across this answer. My first inclination was to flag, not an answer. The designation as a community wiki threw me though.
Here's the answer:
So, after I create my ...
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Closing Votes count bug
So here I am, minding my own business and checking out the Vote to Close statistics, when I notice a weird number... 25. I voted only 24 times in this UTC day. Weird bug? Or am I just that super ...
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Close votes limited to 20 under "review" but can still vote on per question
Yesterday I maxed out my close votes for the day, and in fact still have three hours until the close vote under the review tab opens again. But as I was reading a off topic question, I clicked close ...
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Reviewing suggested edits -- Which column is the original, and which is the proposal?
When reviewing the suggested edits queue, I came across this one and I'm confused. My understanding is that the post on the left side is the original and the right side is the proposed changes, ...
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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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Markdown formatting of tag wiki excerpts in /review
Tag wiki excerpts are plain text. The description when editing tag wikis states:
The tag wiki excerpt is a brief plain text introduction to the topic that the tag represents. It is shown at the top ...
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Audit reviews shouldn't treat comments as negative input [duplicate]
So I was reviewing first posts and came across a good question. Me thinking it has no answers yet, I left a comment asking for more information and suggesting a solution to the question. Afterwards, I ...
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Is there a problem with the close vote review?
Since the down time at the weekend I have noticed that, when reviewing close votes, the vote to close pop-up does not always refer to the question I am about to vote on.
For instance, just now I ...
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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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What are congratulations? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Review post test
What are the “congratulations” in the review tasks?
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Reviewing the same item two (or more times) times
Here is a screenshot of me reviewing a post that I reviewed earlier:
I know that it has happened many more times, but this is the first that I had had a comment on the post that would tell me for ...
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Review Notification Indicator
I don't want to make too much of this, but more of just a suggestion.
Would it be at all possible to have some kind of indicator that there are new items that need to be reviewed..Example:
Instead ...
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Question closed due to non-question format -- rewritten
I recently had a question closed due to it being labeled as not a real quesiton, so I just rewrote the question and wanted to ask if it could be opened again and also, if the negative score could be ...
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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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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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Can I use the review queue in the Stack Exchange Android app?
Sometimes I wouldn't mind reviewing first posts, late answers, etc via the android app.
Is this is even possible?
If not is this something that has any chance of being implemented?
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all of my low quality review posts comes blank
Look over the above picture, while reviewing I found an empty post but while clicked on edit I was able to get this answer.
Am I the only one who's getting this type of errors? What would be the ...
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In review, the questions that are removed aren't automatically skipped
Today I was reviewing questions. I saw a user's first answer to the question in which OP was asking On how to setup a VAR - value Added Reseller.
The question was clearly spam and was removed. I ...
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