Questions tagged [review]
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What happened to Low quality posts? [closed]
I noticed today when I came to review it had 303 low quality posts. That's an amazing number, more than I've ever seen on any other site.. What happened to get so many?
All the posts appear to be ...
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Review link doesn't appear for <125 rep users, though there's a site self-evaluation going on
I'm on this site a <125 rep user, so it's normal that I don't see a review link in the top bar sub-top bar. However, there's a site self-evaluation going on and I do have the privilege to ...
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Upvote questions from the Close review queue when marking as duplicate
When using the review queue, I'd like to be able to upvote the question and/or answer that is the duplicate of the one being closed.
After reviewing the possible duplicate and finding that
it is ...
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How can I ask to reopen a question after I edited it? [duplicate]
I edited this closed as off-topic question to be more general: Should I use ZimageZ in Xubuntu xfce to store my screenshots?
Do I have to ask here in Meta to review a closed question after I edited ...
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Why does Recommend Deletion have an option for link-only answers?
I have recently joined the 2000+ Club and was awarded the privilege of reviewing Low Quality Posts.
If you have not yet seen the following question and its answers, you are urged to go through them (...
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No items for you to review
I was just reviewing the posts and after a few questions, I got the message "There are no items for you to review".
I logged in again after a day and found the same message. Why is it so?
Is it ...
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What is the site self-evaluation?
Today I encountered the site self-evaluation evenmt. When I clicked on it the review site opened and I had to evaluate several questions. However this thing lacked some explanation. So what is the ...
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How to watch for hidden gems?
In late answers review I found a helping notice as:
This is a new user's answer to an old question. Watch for hidden gems, non-answers, and spam
I understand what non-answers and spam refers to, ...
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"Review Low Quality Posts" does not let you say that posts can be improved
Review Low Quality Posts has just three buttons: Looks Good, Edit, Recommend Deletion.
I often see one-liner answers, sometimes link-only answers. Most of the times, such answers can be improved by ...
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Review edit interface is misleading
I was reviewing an edit here, but even though it turns out the suggested edit was made on the original post, it was compared to a later edit (a nice one by the way). So much so, that the edit being ...
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Voting to leave open a question in review queue, then manually voting to close the same question, does not work as expected
Exec. sum. :
I voted to leave open a question, then voted to close it. This worked, but only some of the information displayed reflected my actions.
The details:
I voted to leave open a question....
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How do we deal with "urgent!" questions?
I've come across some plain "please help me"-issues posted by users including the comment they need urgent help. Clearly, they're not looking on the right site or should ask this on chat instead, but ...
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How long after a question or answer has been posted does it appear in the review queue (if it is to be reviewed)?
What is the correct action? Should one wait for a question or answer to appear in the review or just go ahead and edit or flag it as soon as possible? I get the impression, from the slider, that there'...
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What to do when reviewing a good Q/A?
Most of the Questions or Answers (Q/A) on the review queue have something to improve (title, tags, poor content formatting, etc.), but sometimes are Q/A that are, not just well written and I don't see ...
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What to do when a user asks a question editing an another question?
Today I was looking at the suggested edits and I found edit #70248.
The edit was made to a question about a graphics problem and consisted in the following text:
pls do tell me how to connect to ...
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Review Old Questions?
How do we deal with really old questions that don't have an accepted answer or no answer at all? I know that the 'Community User' bumps them once in a while, but is that enough? Our answered ratio ...
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What causes questions to drop into the 'review for deletion' queue?
After reading Jorge's post on using the review queue correctly I had a look at some of the questions and saw that this one had received one close vote and nothing else.
After adding a close vote (it'...
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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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Why can't I review a suggested edit to my answer
I received a "please review" notification of an edit suggested for an answer of mine (It's also my question, but I think that's irrelevant). The edit seems good, and I wanted to approve it. But I ...
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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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PSA: When reviewing, don't post duplicate (and near-duplicate) comments!
As jrg♦ said (pinned in main chat):
Hey folks who use "canned" comments: If you see one thats already there that expresses the same general idea, don't add another one. Thanks. :)
This has ...
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What is peer review?
What is peer review? I always see this quote on a statement after edit a post.
And how much reputation user can do the peer review?
This is the example:
Thanks for your edit!
This edit will be ...
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Suggested edits count includes a user's own tag wiki edits
In review, I'm told there are 3 suggested edits for me to approve/reject/improve:
(These images are from the old review system; the new system's interface is different but this still seems to occur.)
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What to do when an anonymous user insists they are the OP for an edit?
Some edits, such as those adding information about an OP's system, should only be made...
by the OP, or
at the OP's explicit request, or
by someone who is merely putting the information into the ...
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Using Wayback Machine of internet archive
I have read on a different meta post that there is a system being implemented to fix bad links systematically. Could it be set up to automatically use the Wayback machine to automatically redirect ...
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How are low-quality answers detected?
In the sidebar of the review page it said:
These are automatically detected low quality posts on Ask Ubuntu.
How are those detected?
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