Linked Questions
10 questions linked to/from STOP! Look and Listen
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If you're not going to review and fix questions, don't use the review queue!
I was sort of happy when I saw that the day after release we had 0 incoming new questions in the review queue! Aww man, nothing for me to do, everyone's taken care of all the incoming questions! Then ...
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Please don't abuse of the custom close reasons (nor just agree with the previous close voters)
I've seen this for a while now. We are (miss)using the custom close reason:
Has anyone spoted the problem here? As you can see, both say the same with different wording. Why should we close it with a ...
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Reviewers *need* to be mindful of their actions!
A new answer popped up on an old question earlier and it popped into the Late Answer review queue. Imagine you're reviewing... Does this look like a good answer?
0 Ubuntu Software Center “Failed to ...
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Please, don't use the edit button in the close queue to correct typos or improve the formatting, you are reviewing to close!
As the title says, please don't! This throws the item out of the review queue just by correcting a typo or formatting a bunch of code. The "Edit" button is only helpful in the cases where the question ...
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PSA: When reviewing, remember to think of the future!
I've been reviewing a ton lately and the version tags are becoming worse and worse.
Note to selves, Jeff warned us about this:
When should we use the versions tags?
Version tags can be dangerous ...
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Request: Please take time while reviewing close votes
First I must say, the new review system is great. It is easier to review items, especially the linked duplicate question tab is very useful.
But I think, the easiness of reviewing posts has posed ...
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Please try to read bug reports before voting to close something as a bug
I just found this in the review queue: Does it matter that wlan0 has changed its name to eth1 after I upgraded to 12.04? It has a couple of votes to close as off-topic, I assume because somebody ...
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Broken review test
Moments ago a late answer popped up in the review queue with a link to a bash script debugger hosted at SourceForge. I started by editing the answer (which was not well formatted), but whenever I ...
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Tests are now one third of review tasks
Yesterday I reviewed about ten posts, of which three where tests. Today in just three reviews I got a test. I find this an overkill, especially since I passed all the tests so far. Not very motivating ...
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Reviews for first time posters need to improve?
So I was wondering how all these first time posts are getting through but the number of First Posts in the review queue is always low or zero.
One reason might be that people are ignoring junk in the ...
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