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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/outsid …
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Should we get review audits?

Cons: Users will ask why they failed a review audit Any other? …
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Please, don't use the edit button in the close queue to correct typos or improve the formatt...

This throws the item out of the review queue just by correcting a typo or formatting a bunch of code. … The edit just fixed formatting, it's still a duplicate. https://askubuntu.com/review/close/210495 Duplicate. The edit only fixed typos. https://askubuntu.com/review/close/210502 Unclear. …
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What is the difference between "delete" and "recommend deletion" votes?

Supposedly, the low quality review queue allows you to vote to delete (a 20k privilege) 0 scored answers from the review, in hopes this speed up the deletion process. …
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Is everyone uncomfortable with their first reviews?

If you can't bear it downvote and flag/vote to close accordingly. Sometimes (well, most of them) there are askers/answerers that don't give the little minimum effort that the SE network requires, in h …
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Do we need a event to clear out the Close Queue?

What you think it can be done to get users review tasks in the review queue? … review queue, and a total of 6,829 review tasks have been completed. …
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What to look out in the Reopen queue?

Well, since now the High traffic questions are automagially falling in the Reopen queue, what are the things to look out? I'm aware that duplicates that has an awful amount of traffic can be merged ( …
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Don't include self answered or questions where the OP commented in the review audits

Example: https://askubuntu.com/review/close/235631 I see only 2 solutions: Don't include in the audit such questions Obscure OP comments on the audit …
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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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Ask Ubuntu tested me

This would explain most of your doubts but in summary is a test if you are paying attention (and doing a good job) to the review queue. What are review tests (audits) and how do they work? …
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The audit review system - dubious posts

No, actually the lack of a well defined quality policies will dismiss the usefulness of the audits, I've failed 2 audits already just because of this (and went outside of the queue and voted to close …
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The quality of the duplicates is so bad that I want to cry

This is rather preoccupating since duplicates are the hardest to review/evaluate: If it's a duplicate we need to read both the questions - the one we are closing and the one we are targeting - to ensure … or robo-review and just agree with the previous. …
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I can Review close votes, but I don't have more votes to cast!

But I only reviewed 19 questions, hence I have still access to the review queue. BUT! …
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Accidentally approved an edit that I meant to improve

Am I correct that there is no way to either change the approval or improve the edit (until it's approved, at least)? Yes, the only thing you can do is wait until the edit is accepted/rejected and …
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How can I view the actual amount of close votes

There's this thing called private session, or window... or whatever. This is how it looks: You can also query the database, but is not real time. I'm sure the API also has this information.
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