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What if resources from SE Q&A communities are not enough for reviews of postings for reopening? [duplicate]
If a posting is in review queue for reopening and resources of Q&A communities of SE are not sufficient for review within a day or possibly several days, is it of value making a comment or being ...
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Prevent reopen votes from expiring until a question is dequeued to improve experience for low-visibility queue items
The workflow for getting a question reopened is you edit to improve the question, use the 'Add to review' checkbox or cast a reopen vote yourself to push your question into the Reopen votes queue, ...
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Reopen votes queue guidance contains outdated and/or inaccurate information
Go to any site /review/reopen then click Learn more about the Reopen votes queue.
Closed questions that have received at least one reopen vote, as well as posts whose bodies have been edited within ...
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Can there be suggested edit audits that should be approved?
There has been some discussion over the years about the quality of suggested edit audits and the possibility of there being audits where the correct action is approve:
Are there tests of suggested ...
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Does it make sense to be able to unilaterally edit Qs and As but not be able to unilaterally approve edits?
I've just realized that while my current level of site permissions on one of the SE sites allows me to edit other people's questions and answers at will, it does not allow me to unilaterally approve ...
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Allow opting out of review queues notifications
Yes, we should all serve our military duty.
https://stackoverflow.com/help/privileges/access-review-queues
But for those that aren't interested, we shouldn't need to rely on hacks.
Opting out of ...
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Protected questions should have a higher reputation requirement for editing and approving edits
When a question is protected it requires a certain minimum reputation to answer it. At least on politics SE this is mostly used for questions that are highly politized or opioniated. And it works in ...
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Edit review page: looks like all tags gone
No big deal, but here with the side by side display, a quick look gives the false impression that all the tags were removed in the new version.
So perhaps it would be best to repeat them anyway, in ...
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Why is there no "duplicate answer" comment on late answer reviews? [duplicate]
When reviewing Late Answers, the Delete option description reads
Answer does not address the question, is a duplicate, or cannot be improved.emphasis added
as shown here:
However, when I select ...
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Can new users not be bait-and-switched?
As a new user on SE, I shared the common new-user experience of questions downvoted, and closed, and the feeling of being kicked around by (well-meaning) moderators, and perhaps worse, the suspicion ...
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Missing guidance in audits: Keeping in mind what guidance above?
I just 'failed' a First Questions audit. The message reads:
STOP! Look and Listen.
This was an audit, designed to see if you were paying attention. You didn't pass.
Don't worry, we've already ...
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Custom comment when sharing feedback doesn't warn of the character limit and simply truncates the text
When reviewing and sharing feedback with a custom comment, the little box thing where I type the comment doesn't warn of the 500-character limit, nor does it give me a countdown of how many characters ...
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Don't count automatic review comments posted by the Community user as the "previous moderator action" on a post, as they are triggered by normal users
On moderator dashboard each item can contain a last moderator's reaction. That helps a lot prior handling that item by another moderator. But sometimes it's confusing (image taken from SO in Russian):
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Automatically upvote an existing review queue canned comment instead of duplicating it [duplicate]
I’ve noticed that if multiple users select the same canned comment in the review queues, this results in duplicate comments. This might come across as rude and annoying to the recipient, who will get ...
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Skip the extra popup confirmation window "Nominate this question for reopening?" to streamline the "Reopen votes" review process
I was going through questions in the review queue Reopen votes: Vote whether or not to reopen closed questions. I clicked on Reopen.
I expected this to reopen the question. Instead, I got a popup ...
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Blocked from editing due to pending review
Currently a pending edit needs two approvals. I have edit permissions, but review queues are apparently slow today, and I cannot make some necessary edits because a second person needs to approve the ...
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Add back the highlight on the author's name on suggested edit reviews to their own posts, or indicate the author otherwise
In the old UI for the review queues, it used to be that if the author reviewed a suggested edit to their own post, their name would be highlighted:
(Source)
However, this is no longer the case:
This ...
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Reviewers should be able to communicate with each other about a review task
TL;DR:
Reviewers of a post should be able to comment on the task in a separate comment section visible to everyone but only actionable by the reviewers, 10k users and moderators.
Communication between ...
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Flag to put a closed question in the Reopen queue (just like we have for the Close queue) [duplicate]
A few days ago, I found an interesting question on Music.SE that was closed. I wanted it to be reopened, but I couldn't find any typo or small problem that I can fix with an edit to put it into the ...
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Clarify meaning of “Looks OK” in the Low Quality Answers queue
In the Low Quality Answers queue “Looks OK” option has a description
It is an honest attempt at answering the question and is not low
quality.
In most of cases when a reviewer wants to click “Looks ...
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Can we have a question's tags be displayed at the top in all review queues and tabs?
When reviewing items, I often find myself switching tabs, between e.g. 'Answer' and 'Question', not in the least because to properly assess the quality of i.c. an answer, I need to know what the ...
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Add/fix links to comments in review queues
When reviewing a post, the comments are shown underneath, which is great, but there's a difference: on the Q&A page, the timestamps (x units of time ago) are clickable and contain a direct link to ...
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Check pending edit limit before allowing user to initiate a new edit [duplicate]
I've been reviewing questions in the First Questions review queue on Stack Overflow and frequently find it necessary to make minor edits to questions. I understand that I am limited to a specific ...
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"There are too many pending edits on Stack Overflow" Is there an auto-deletion?
Core considerations are at the bottom if you're short on time.
Is there any sort of auto-deletion of suggested edits after a certain amount of time? It gets pretty annoying to have to wait for ...
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For edit-suggestors with a streak of N approvals, only require one approval for their next suggested edit
Proposal:
If a <2k user's past N suggested edits are all approved ("good edit streak"), make their following suggested edits only require one approval.
For rejections, I can't think of a ...
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Saving posts while reviewing in review queues
It would be better if is there a saves icon in the post while reviewing in review queues. A few days ago there was a save icon. But it has been removed. I'm requesting to add this feature again since ...
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When viewing a post's revisions history from a review queue, make the "Return to Question/Answer" link less unintuitive
I was in the First questions review queue and found that when clicking to view the revisions list, the "Return to Question" link was a bit unintuitive (since I didn't get to the revision ...
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Add "improve and reopen/leave closed" options to the question edit queue
Whenever a significant edit is made to a closed question, the editor can choose to let it enter the reopen queue (with the "This edit resolves the original close reason and the question should be ...
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Limit the number of times an author can choose "Submit for review" when editing a closed question
When a question is closed, anyone can make an edit and submit the question for reopening:
This can be done an indefinite amount of times, which can lead to situations where authors are making ...
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The Help Center is missing detail concerning Low Quality review queues not on per-site metas
Further to this question, this FAQ post states:
Low Quality Posts does not exist on per-site metas
However, this detail is absent from the Help Center section entitled What are review queues?:
(...
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Give back the ability to indicate that a suggested edit is not helpful when improving
Prior to 2014, the ways by which a reviewer of a suggested edit could apply another edit when reviewing were different. The "Reject and Edit" option didn't exist, and the only option was to &...
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Let moderators delete comments while reviewing
Moderators can delete comments from Q&A pages by hovering over them; a red link appears, similar to how deleting one's own comments works:
However, this functionality is not available in the ...
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Can the tool tip for the close votes review number be changed to denote the amount of votes and the amount of flags?
I recently asked this question where I noticed that the review item had a "(5)" for the number of "votes" it received to be closed. It confused me, since 5 votes on Arqade is what ...
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Improve wording of banner shown after reviewing a suggested edit on one of your own posts
If you've reviewed a suggested edit on one of your own posts, you get a special banner since this feature request was implemented (emphasis mine):
You voted on this suggested edit to your post as ...
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Don't use answers with a "Very low quality" flag on them as review audits
"Very low quality" flags are quite ambiguous as to their purpose, without a whole lot of agreement. More relevantly, they're marked helpful by an edit—any edit, even correcting a typo‐often ...
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Show suggested edits in Markdown diff mode when something inside a spoiler is changed
I just encountered this suggested edit which states
added some periods; rewording
It opens in the side-by-side view, which only shows the change in the non-spoiler part of the edit:
It would be ...
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Error Message when downvoting then recommending deletion in Low Quality Answers/Posts is misleading
I was served a review in Low Quality Answers on Stack Overflow.
The post had a score of +1. This makes it ineligible for deletion, so the review options that were served to me were "Looks OK"...
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Allow moderators to issue warnings to reviewers using the review suspension system
This would basically function as a zero-day suspension: the reviewer would get the message in exactly the same way they would for a review suspension, except that they can keep reviewing afterward.
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Keep showing the post after casting the final spam flag while reviewing
When casting the final spam flag from the First Questions/First Answers/Late Answers queue, the post disappears and 'question/answer not found' is shown instead:
This makes it difficult for example ...
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Meta SE's "access review queues" privilege mentions queues that don't exist
Having just earned 2k reputation, I received access to the first available review queues.
This is what the description on the Privileges page says:
Access the First posts and Late answers review ...
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Grace period for submitting reviews on completed items doesn't work for "Close" reviews in the close queue
Normally, the system provides a 15-minute grace period on completed reviews, to allow users to submit a review if they loaded a task before it was completed but another user submits the final review ...
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Privilege page 'Access review queues' still says that Triage is "Stack Overflow only"
Similar to Help Center still says that Triage is "Stack Overflow only"; however, it's enabled on Physics since September, there is another Help Center page that lists the review queues ...
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No confirmation after submitting edited closed question for reopen review
After I edited a closed question of mine, I checked the checkbox, "This edit resolves the original close reason and the question should be considered for reopening." After clicking "...
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Allow moderators to forgive review suspensions
Following up on applying permanent review suspensions, I noticed several permabanned* users are suitable/eligible for review unsuspension due to the review suspension system overhaul (in particular - ...
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Don't make refreshing a Review page behave like a Skip
I often contribute to Stack Exchange via my mobile phone (on Chrome browser).
I was reviewing the only entry in the First Question Review Queue on the mobile-version on my phone, then wanted to see ...
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Reasons shown for "remain closed" votes in the Reopen Votes review queue should be listed in the same order as reasons in Close dialog
Since the Review queue workflows - Final release, when voting to leave a question closed in the Reopen Votes review queue, you have to select an option why it should remain closed:
These correspond ...
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Indicate or limit character capacity in custom comment textarea of review modal
I was reviewing a first question from a new user today in the review queue and wrote a custom comment that was evidently too long.
At the time of writing, I didn't realize that I exceeded the ...
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Add link to help center in the canned First question comments
When reviewing a user's first question, we can opt to leave a comment, and there is the option of picking 2 canned comments:
Please clarify your specific problem or provide additional details to ...
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First answers review queue - Edit queue is full at the moment
I have recently reached the possibility of using the "review queues". Often and willingly I try to help the community of Stack Overflow as I can, focusing mainly on the "first questions&...
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If I've already left a comment in review, the system doesn't need to suggest an automated comment
I couldn't see this suggested elsewhere, but if I leave a comment during review, I don't need an automated comment suggested to me.
If the option to leave a comment has some other purpose (moves it to ...
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