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Will there be audit review audits for moderators? :P
– Manishearth
Commented Jul 14, 2013 at 19:04
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Note by the way, that the very ability to dispute review audit can be rate-limited in addition to already established rate limits on review. I would consider something like starting with allowing one audit challenge per week (or maybe even per month) for a novice reviewer. For steward reviewer, one challenge a day feels reasonably safe.
– gnat
Commented Jul 16, 2013 at 13:55
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A good idea would be to place the action that failed the audit (downvote for good audit, commenting on good audit, upvoting bad audit, etc.) so that they can place it in context.
– Qantas 94 Heavy
Commented Oct 15, 2013 at 12:09
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It took a while for me to come around to the "This audit is incorrect" version because of the more confrontational tone, but I'd always envisioned typing an explanation for disagreement. I can see the virtue in directly disputing the audit case.
– hardmath
Commented Nov 5, 2013 at 0:33
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Any progress on implementing this? I just hit a borderline one myself (poor but salvageable question, not all that old, named user account) and would have liked the opportunity to explain my reasoning.
– zwol
Commented Dec 10, 2013 at 4:07
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On Mathematics I have just had my first fail after several passes. I think it was a judgment call, yet I was told I was wrong without any chance to engage. I think that fail rate should be taken into account before suspending anyone - everyone will disagree occasionally, and sometimes a consensus needs to be tested. And I also think that the tests need to feed a live conversation about what a good review is. Some of the Maths homework questions get closed before the original poster has a chance to respond to very helpful comments.
– Mark Bennet
Commented Apr 22, 2014 at 19:59
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I like this proposal with the exception that a disputed audit should continue to count against the user until resolved. Otherwise, users have an incentive to dispute even legitimate audits.
– Warren Dew
Commented May 23, 2014 at 6:05
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@MarkBennet: Well, when he gets around to it, his edit will push his question into the reopen-queue, and if he actually resolved the problems with his post, it will be reopened fast. It's working as intended.
– Deduplicator
Commented Sep 10, 2014 at 18:57
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Any news on something like this being implemented? I just failed an audit where an answer was removed for being "not an answer", even though it was actually a duplicate of an earlier answer with 203 upvotes. No way to know that from the review screen, of course.
– stkent
Commented Jan 4, 2015 at 15:19
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Not at this point :) Should something removed as a duplicate not show up in the review queue then?
– stkent
Commented May 20, 2015 at 19:33
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Just an idea, but say if the audit was good then it should be included in a list somewhere with an explanation of why it was a good audit so other users could learn from it.
– Diminutive Colossus
Commented Jun 11, 2015 at 16:30
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This Q&A has been open for over two years. Is there any update? There are many questions on meta that relate to poor review audits so it would seem that that doing something about them is considered highly desirable by the Stack Overflow community.
– AdrianHHH
Commented Sep 14, 2015 at 14:41
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Another year has passed, and we still desperately need this. The audit system keeps proving itself to be broken, sometimes training opposite behaviors simultaneously.
– CodeMouse92
Commented May 3, 2016 at 22:42
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Another year has passed. Still missing this feature. Still getting bit by poor audit questions.
– Bacon Bits
Commented Apr 10, 2017 at 13:05
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@BaconBits Another two year passed. Some high-rep important users left the SO because unfair treatment of avid reviewers. SE seems deaf to the whole problem.
– peterh
Commented Aug 26, 2019 at 10:11

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