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Why is the pool of selectable known-bad first question audits so small?
Over on Meta Stack Exchange, someone's reported having received the same post as a review audit in the First questions review queue five times overall. Per this post from a then-employee, when the ...
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Recommend Deletion option in Late Answers review queue does nothing - please flag posts that should be deleted
Just a quick PSA here - thanks to BeastOfCaerbannog I've realised that the new Recommend Deletion option in the Late Answers queue completes the review and gives you the option to leave the canned ...
ZannaMod
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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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How do I check if the vote I cast in review audit is actually cast on the original post?
Sometimes in review an audit comes along. Oh nice answer/question, I upvote. Then a message appears
This was a test, you passed.
But I don't know if my upvote is counting. Do I have go to the answer/...
ZannaMod
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Some new weird review ban
A few minutes ago I was reviewing low quality posts.
A question appeared containing some link looking like a spam. I hovered over the link, but it didn't show the URL.
I pressed "Edit" to see the ...
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Post Reviewing Useful Comments [duplicate]
I have seen the same set of comments being used by many reviewers. Can an experienced reviewer please provide a list of those comments? Here's one:
While this link may answer the question, it is ...
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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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How to open a certain question in the Close Votes queue?
Unlike the edit-button which brings me to the Suggested Edits-queue when an edit is pending, the close-button always open the VTC-dialog.
I'd prefer to be brought to the Close Votes-queue if there ...
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What is the red circle on my review icon?
Today a red circle appeared on my review icon, but I don't know what it is. Nothing else has changed. Can anyone explain?
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LQP queue recanting recommendations
I recommended deletion on this answer which the user then edited to improve his answer based on the review.
How can I recant that review and cancel the delete recommendation?
ZannaMod
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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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Why didn't 6 reviewers' recommendations delete this answer?
This answer was flagged as low quality and reviewed by 7 users. All but one reviewer Recommended Deletion, and the review now claims to be completed, both on the review page and on the timeline, but ...
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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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Is there a way to undo my review?
I mistakenly clicked on Looks OK instead of Recommend Deletion while reviewing a post. Now this post will most probably be deleted anyway as it's of very low quality. But I would like to make sure in ...
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How do I review?
As of today, the new top bar is live for normal users on Ask Ubuntu. Previously, I was reviewing quite a lot, but now we have this new top bar, and I can't see any "review" link in it... Can anyone ...
ZannaMod
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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 (...
CommunityBot
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Reviews are offered even while I'm banned!
Due to my sloppiness in reviewing, I've been blocked from reviewing for a while. However, on my home page, I'm shown a non-zero number of items to review. Why?
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Can reviewers review suggested edits more than 20 times?
I thought you aren't able to perform more than 20 reviews of one sort per day. But in https://askubuntu.com/review/suggested-edits/stats, it looks like Videonauth has reviewed 21. Is that possible?
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Rejecting edits because they "Failed to correct critical issues with the post"
So I just made it past 2k rep, and I've been reviewing some edits.
Once, one of my suggested edits was rejected because it apparently
Failed to correct critical issues with the post
I found a ...
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My flags have been waiting for review for 10+ days?
I have several flags that I raised on the 5th... and they are still waiting for review.
What gives?
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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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What is the difference between "delete" and "recommend deletion" votes?
I can't quite get how the Low Quality queue works.
How many delete votes are needed to delete an answer and is any "Recommend deletion" votes are enough?
And what is the difference between these ...
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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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Meaning of orange number left to the "review" button for 10k+ users [duplicate]
We all know that the orange bubble with the white number (here: 330) represents the number of Suggested edits for users with 3k+ reputation.
But I have recently (today) reached 10k reputation and now ...
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Do flags of users with review privilege count as review?
I am currently at around 7.8k reputation points, which means I have access to all standard review queues, including the "Low Quality" queue.
Now when I see a post that does not meet the site's ...
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How can I make more than edits show in my review notification?
My review notification only shows suggested edits, however I have seen screenshots of other users desktops that have hundreds of notifications here.
Can I add more queue's to my notifications, rather ...
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review audit failed "Understand" Button closes the rewiew
I just got the message, that I should look over my review again here but when I clicked "I understand" it was closed.
This is not what I wanted, I wanted to look over it again to improve my work
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Accidentally approved an edit that I meant to improve
I was given an edit to review that, although it was a slight improvement over the original, had a lot of bad grammar and generally was not very good quality (probably suggested by someone whose first ...
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How can I view the actual amount of close votes
I recently thought that I would have a look at the Close vote queue (since I usually never bother - I have been trying to have a go at the moment). When I was finished it looked like this:
So I ...
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WAT! Failed review audit but the question is closed
This question is closed as too broad, rightly so despite the upvotes (if you only take into account the last question "Won't a recent Ubuntu version affect my software in any way ?" you will need more ...
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Misclassified audit question?
I received "This was an audit, designed to see if you were paying attention. You didn't pass," after voting to close https://askubuntu.com/review/close/261614 .
On one of the proposed answers, the ...
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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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Ask Ubuntu tested me
Why Ask Ubuntu tested me while reviewing close votes?What was the purpose of this kind of tests?
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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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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 ...
CommunityBot
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Is it possible to partially accept an edit?
A post of mine just got edited. Most of the edit was great. Just one thing was not true. Is there a way to partially accept an edit. I just accepted and then edited the edit, is there a better way?
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Why the flag count doesn't show besides the review link?
I've seen for a couple of days this, but the "flag count" doesn't appear besides the review link unless flags > 30. Is this intended?
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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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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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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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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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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 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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