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Tetsujin
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How do we better educate new Reviewers in the Review queues?
My main concern is that these users are responding wrongly to the most blatantly obvious spam. It's apparent they have no idea just what action they should take, but rather than skip, or ask someone, they're still going through making inappropriate choices, so rapidly that I actually find it hard to find any good examples if I look at the queues myself, other than close & re-open - they're all already done.
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How do we better educate new Reviewers in the Review queues?
@Ramhound - I hope you're right, but fear that simply review-banning won't educate, merely shift the problem elsewhere;) I agree on not editing spam as it confuses the Smoke Detector - except one I edited, which had been flagged but declined. The OP then added the full spam I'd been anticipating in the first place:\ superuser.com/q/1793631/347380 if you want to drop another delete flag on it, it only has 2 so far.
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How do we better educate new Reviewers in the Review queues?
@Destroy666 - it's just occurred to me, re-reading this thread, that you may think it's the users I'm trying to educated. It isn't. It's the reviewers.
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How do we better educate new Reviewers in the Review queues?
@Destroy666 - as they were responding until the bot comment went in, I guess we'll never know now. Often with this type of question, once the rubber stamp goes in, they rarely come back. Harder to guess in this case, as the user isn't brand-new, but does have limited interaction. As already pointed out, the first question queue never gets long enough to be any worry. Insisting on banging through it is precisely what I'm hoping to prevent. I wasn't at all annoyed by the user & it's not the OP I'm trying to educate, it's the reviewers. I was annoyed by the completely unnecessary rubber-stamp.
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How do we better educate new Reviewers in the Review queues?
My entire point, which you still don't seem to be grasping, is that 1) you don't have to complete the review if there's no sensible action to take, or if action is already being taken. You can skip. The first question queues are dealt with by the same few people, usually so rapidly I never find anything in the queue. 2) "a kinder sounding info message" no it isn't. It's completely useless & gives the OP no clue whatsoever what exactly they need to do. Even more so because triage/clarification is already underway. All it does is cloud the issue. Hence my request here for education.
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How do we better educate new Reviewers in the Review queues?
@Destroy666 - This is precisely what I'm talking about superuser.com/questions/1793377/… There is already interaction to try clarify, then the dozy, useless boiler-plate appears underneath. This is the mindless reviewing I'm talking about. [& yes, I can see who posted it from review]. Nothing to do with whether a question was closed for a wrong reason. If you want to discuss that, post a new question.
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How do we better educate new Reviewers in the Review queues?
@Destroy666 - you don't need to be in the review queues to flag spam. You can do it from the question itself.
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How do we better educate new Reviewers in the Review queues?
@Ramhound - Yeah, these all come from the 'first questions' queue - the easiest one to get access to, for the rep farmers. If I find one in another queue I open the full QA to have a better look & take more appropriate action… but these queue bashers are just not bothering, which doesn't help them, us, the newbie or the site...
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How do we better educate new Reviewers in the Review queues?
@Ramhound - I managed to get a real one to demonstrate. Take any other action, like flag as spam, you get an additional option, Other Action, which then shows in the Review History as just 'Reviewed'
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