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    ... I feel like the links to flag should still be on the post, which would allow you to flag it as NAA. Not sure why they're not there. The flag and close links also seem to be missing on questions. - Looks like it's supposed to be there but went AWOL - meta.stackexchange.com/a/369017/284336
    – Catija
    Commented Aug 26, 2021 at 14:50
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    Personally, I liked the way the "Late Answers" queue used to work (and Lisa admits it was highly successful). I can see why some would like a fast-track-to-deletion, with "Delete" direct from First/Late Answers but I also feel that the two-tier system - flagging from Late/First Answers to send it into Low Quality Posts for deletion - actually provides a good 'safety mechanism'. Commented Aug 26, 2021 at 15:53
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    Also, I'm not sure that very new reviewers (500 rep) should really be voting to delete answers. And those with very high rep (20k+) could, anyway, vote to delete as their review action in (the old) Late Answers queue. "Late Answers" wasn't broken, so why did they fix it? Commented Aug 26, 2021 at 15:57
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    We added flags back in, and we're going to be adding other options back in as well. I'm going to mark this as status-completed.
    – kristinalustig StaffMod
    Commented Aug 27, 2021 at 12:51
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    @kristinalustig I think flagging should be one of the actions to end the review... there's generally nothing else to do after that. That would help to deal with some of the problems in other answers here.
    – Zanna
    Commented Aug 27, 2021 at 18:27
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    people who click "No Action Needed" for every item and from now on will click "Looks OK"
    – Zanna
    Commented Aug 28, 2021 at 6:18
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    @kristinalustig The flag issue is still there you still have to end up skipping as there is no good exit option
    – mmmmmm
    Commented Aug 28, 2021 at 8:33
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    I have to say, I am pretty baffled that someone didn't think of NAA workflow and how you cannot complete review for such answers. This is pretty obvious stuff. Commented Aug 28, 2021 at 9:30
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    If this is status completed, why is this the best we can do when reviewing a non answer in the First Answers queue? Commented Aug 28, 2021 at 20:45
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    @kristinalustig, This says status-completed, but a flag as a non-answer still doesn't complete the review or allow us end it with 'I'm Done'. Do I need to clear my browser cache or something?
    – ouflak
    Commented Aug 28, 2021 at 21:45
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    Do I select "Answer is unclear" or "Answer needs supporting information" if the answer is clearly spam? Sure, I flagged it as spam (for someone else to delete), but I sure as heck can't select "Looks OK" after doing that.
    – FreeMan
    Commented Aug 30, 2021 at 18:23
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    Can the status-completed be removed from this as there is still No way to correctly handle non-answers in First answers?
    – Tomerikoo
    Commented Aug 31, 2021 at 7:50
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    I've updated the status to planned - sorry for the confusion. We're working on this as we speak, as well as a bunch of other fixes, and we'll be sure to update y'all when we've gotten them out the door.
    – kristinalustig StaffMod
    Commented Aug 31, 2021 at 11:44
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    I actually find it pretty remarkable that this very obvious use case have been overlooked...
    – klutt
    Commented Aug 31, 2021 at 12:39
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    Until this is taken seriously, I'll continue to flag as "non-answer" and just click "Looks OK", as this is the option that makes most sense (although it doesn't really make any sense). Commented Aug 31, 2021 at 20:47