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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. :)
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Should we get review audits?
Today (2013-12-11), in 3-4 occasions, regulars in chat rooms expressed their concerns that users do not know how to use the site. Is not surprising considering that our eternal September hasn't ended ...
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Do we need a event to clear out the Close Queue?
If you follow SO/MSO you will notice an event in the Community Bulletin:
If you read up, SE has made some changes to the close queue in hopes to motivate close voters to... review. In the efforts ...
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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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Spammers are being nastier withing the second!
To the reviewers that check First Time posts, please, be very alert about this new kind of attack:
Spammers are now posting seemly valid answers/questions ripping of other posts/answers inside/...
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Clearing out Old Questions
Recently in the review queue I have seen a number of questions which had they been asked today would be off topic because they specifically refer to an end of life version of Ubuntu but were on topic ...
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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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The audit review system - dubious posts
This is the second time I got that unloved "Stop! Look and Listen" for a question I voted to close after reading it several times and trying to understand it.
The question really is not clear to me: ...
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Review Audits - room for improvement
First impressions from the review audit system: I am slightly amused but more annoyed.
The first two audits I got were ones that I had voted to close myself - so it was a mild form of deja vu
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Shouldn't we stop closing questions instantly as Off-Topic if we see the words "mint", "debian", etc.?
I'm not suggesting that Mint is on-topic, but recently I've noticed questions getting closed as Off Topic, just because a question contains the word "Mint" or "Debian".
If you need to close them, I ...
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What should I do with answers about other Linux distros?
See this chat conversation for intense discussion.
When I see an answer "here's how to do this in Windows", I flag it and leave a comment explaining that this is off-topic. All such flags have been ...
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How to know which questions should be closed, a reprise
Recently Luis went SPACESHIP and brought the 1000-or-so items in the review close queue down to zero. A truly epic effort that I'm sincerely grateful for.
Shortly after, he posted on Meta about his ...
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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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Shall we try and clean the close vote review queue to start the new year?
Another update
We only have about 26 questions to review!
Update
Due to hard work of several ask ubuntu community members and a mod or two we have now reduced the queue considerably. We are almost ...
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Duplicate circle?
I was just casting a duplicate close vote on this question when I got this notice:
What does it mean and how should I proceed?
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Let's not do "I don't know how to fix your problem, so just reinstall"
Not sure how this question went through multiple reviews:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/507573/how-do-i-get-a-zte-mf667-usb-modem-working
But we should be more careful when people recommend ...
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Call out to reviewers - you CAN "skip"
I remember some reviews of suggested edits where the reviewers clearly could not understand either the post or the edit.
One of these was https://askubuntu.com/a/476746/117103 , supposedly an answer, ...
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Why do you not review?
The title says it all. I am wondering why people do not review. Feel free to post an answer with your reason or to upvote someone else's answer. You can upvote multiple answers (as always), but that ...
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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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Me-too post? Or partial answer?
Where do we draw the line between "I'm having the same problem, too" posts and partial answers?
This answer and its comments are what have motivated me to ask this. But I'm hoping for a ...
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When is an edit too minor?
I see a decent number of edits in the queue that feel like someone is trying to get rep rather than trying to improve the site. Some examples:
https://askubuntu.com/review/suggested-edits/223751 -- ...
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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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Clearing out the close review queue 2015
From my point of view, there are ~880 questions in the close review queue. I don't recall a time when it was below 700 (I became active only around last June).
Do we need to put in a concerted effort ...
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Behavior of Site when Marking Test Questions as Duplicates / Commenting on Test Questions
I just wanted to review first posts and got this one. A few days ago, I already came across that quesiton by normally browsing AskUbuntu.
I knew that the wording of the question was exactly the same ...
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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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"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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My last rant on review audits [closed]
Please bear with me - this is definitely the last rant from me about the review queue.
Because it told me again:
That's what I will do - I'll stop using the review queue, instead I will look at ...
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The quality of the duplicates is so bad that I want to cry
Earlier today, I was pointed towards a bunch of question that were duplicated one of the other. But while reviewing the stuff linked to the question I noticed that most of those questions don't have ...
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Links in reviews, good or bad?
First of all, Its is a good feature : fake posts to check whether the reviewer is paying attention or not.
But It seems to have a little problem. One could easily find out that its a test like : ( ...
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Link to Comments and Review Queue
How to get links to comments and to the review of a post to be added as "By Review"?
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Please don't correct commands in questions unless you are sure the mistake is not the source of the problem
This might well be a dupe. If so, y'all know what to do ;)
When editing questions, make sure you don't eliminate all clues as to what was causing the problem by fixing incorrect commands, as this ...
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Please consider not leaving feedback as Community♦
Thanks for reviewing. I really appreciate it.
Recently review got reformatted quite a lot. Personally, I don't like many of the changes. I guess I'm an old stick-in-the-mud. But about one feature in ...
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Can we increase the capacity of our Suggested Edits queue?
Lately a few folks have mentioned that they were unable to suggest edits because the queue itself was full. Apparently, the Suggested Edits queue is only allowed to contain 40 items.
That seems low ...
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Is everyone uncomfortable with their first reviews?
On one hand, I think many of the first posts / answers are quite messy, and not only in bad English, but, and that is probably worse, the result of practically no effort to do some research before ...
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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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Low quality edits are being robo-reviewed on Ask Ubuntu
I had an edit proposed on one of my questions, and since it did not offer much in the way of improvement, I rejected it. It encouraged me to explore the editor's edit history, where I found a mix of ...
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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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Why is there a 20 posts limit on the review queues?
Why is there a 20 posts review limit on the review queues?
I've searched the help pages and read the corresponding privilege page, but nothing even seems to mention that there's a limit to begin with,...
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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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Review queue false negatives on the new top bar
I've reviewed several posts regarding the new top bar such as:
https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/357621/review-queue-updates-icon-poll
https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/355236/the-new-...
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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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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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I can Review close votes, but I don't have more votes to cast!
This post is interesting to Seth, since he has been in a similar situation.
Well, I have no more close votes for the day. But I only reviewed 19 questions, hence I have still access to the review ...
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Can we get review auditioning for the review queues? (First post and late answers at least) [duplicate]
I just checked out a user that has access to the First Post review queue, and the amount of "No action Needed" sentences to crappy questions were something to be ashamed. I don't want to think that ...
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Why was this suggested edit submitted by an anonymous user rejected?
This edit was rejected by 2 users and approved by one, I was going to approve it but got the message that it had already been rejected. It sounded like the OP submitted the edit and it didn't change ...
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Low Quality Review Queue - did I cause the "invalidate"?
Relevant post
getting error when typing string airmon-ng start then my wifi's ext video in comments
It came up in the LQ
I decided that some editing was necessary for me to decide - which I did ...
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How to stop users from serial editing that is worth rejection?
For last few days I have seen few users editing posts in a serial way. I'll be straightforward here, These edits are surely an attempt to gain reputation.
I can say so based on
A custom, fixed edit ...
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When I try to review First Posts, why does it say "No Action Needed"?
Whenever I try to review a 1st post, it says no action required. Is it possible to have it show only posts that I can review?
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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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Do we need a "Will Ubuntu work for X model PC?" question?
This is related to: Do we need thousand of "dumb questions"? or can we just duplicate them to more general answer?
I know newbies will be always newbies, and there isn't enough users to ...
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