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78 questions linked to/from What are the review queues, and how do they work?
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What is the newly added Review section? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate: What are the review queues? What is the newly added review section and how to use it properly?
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How does the /review page work? [duplicate]
How do the /review pages (for example, https://stackoverflow.com/review) work? What actually happens when you click "flag for removal"? Is there a limit to the number of questions that can be reviewed?...
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Is it "Low quality answers" or "low quality posts"? [duplicate]
I haven't visited Stack Overflow's review queues in a while, but this morning I did (thanks winter-bash-2022!), and noticed that unlike other sites I request (Super User, Open Source SE), Stack ...
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Why was this answer not deleted at the sixth Recommend Deletion vote? [duplicate]
The last I heard, if an answer in the Low Quality Posts review queue gets six Recommend Deletion posts, it gets deleted immediately, and the post is marked simply as 'deleted on ...', such as this one ...
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Where to Vote to Approve an Edit/Revision [duplicate]
Where on StackOverflow does one with enough reputation go to be part of voting to accept or deny Revisions (aka 'Edits')?
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Where is the operation of the /review queue documented for users? [duplicate]
I've got a few users that have needed guidance on how the /review queue works and am looking to find where it is documented so that I can point them to the mechanics of how it is intended to work. ...
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How review queue is assigned? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate: What are the review queues? Normally i can't do anything for reviews, because my queue is often empty. How this assign works? and why there's nothing on FAQ about it?
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How does this close votes review have 5 votes already but is still open? [duplicate]
I was going through the close votes review queue on Arqade, and came across this review which apparently has 5 votes to close already (the number needed to close a post on Arqade), yet its still in ...
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Is the Low Quality review queue missing from (LawSE) Meta? [duplicate]
LawSE is the only site where I can view review queues, so I cannot say if this is network wide... The Help Centre section entitled What are review queues? includes this: (Note: The First questions, ...
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Review queue workflows - Final release
All good things must come to an end and so must the review queues project. This project would not have been successful without the community. Thank you all for the hours of reviewing, testing, and ...
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New onboarding for review queues
The Public Platform team is continuing to work towards improving the review queues and we’re here today to announce a new onboarding experience for the review queues. In the product discovery phase (...
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Improving Review Queues - Design overview I: Onboarding and updating workflows
This is one of three project announcements for Improving Review Queues. We’ve summarized the project objectives and goals here. As a reminder, this project is still in the early stages of discovery. ...
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What are the guidelines for reviewing?
About reviewing The review queues contain posts that possibly need further action from the community, like improvement, closure, or deletion. By presenting those posts for peer-review, the system aims ...
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What are review tests (audits) and how do they work?
I sometimes receive this rather amusing message while reviewing in the review queues: Congratulations! This was only a test, designed to make sure you were paying attention. You passed. If I am not ...
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How do suggested edits work?
When clicking "edit" I see: Your edit will be placed in a queue until it is peer reviewed. We welcome edits that make the post easier to understand and more valuable for readers. Because ...
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How does duplicate closing work? When is a question a duplicate, and how should duplicate questions be handled?
Questions can be closed as duplicates. When are two questions considered duplicates? Which question is the duplicate? It's a duplicate. What do I do? Should I edit the question? Should I answer it? ...
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How do you reopen a closed question?
To reopen a closed question, up to five (5) people✝ with the ability to cast reopen votes must agree that the question is suitable for the site and cast votes to reopen the question. But: How does ...
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Shutting down recurring community self-evaluations
We've been talking a lot about the efficacy of community self-evaluations lately, both internally on the Community Team and out in the open on meta. Lots of ideas were tossed around, but the ...
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Who is the Community user?
I see the Community user on the user page. It seems to edit posts sometimes. What is it? And why has it downvoted over 1800 times? See also: What are “Community Wiki” posts? Return to FAQ Index
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Lots of questions in the reopen queue [closed]
I've noticed in the last couple of days that there have been a few occasions when there's been a sudden surge of questions in the SO "Reopen" review queue. Normally there's either no questions at all ...
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When is a review task "completed" or "invalidated"?
I've noticed that the number of reviews required to remove a post from a queue varies. For example, to accept/reject a suggested edit, you need two votes of the same kind. If the votes are conflicting,...
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Why are "Late Answers" reviewed?
Why are late answers from new users reviewed? This simple question might appear somewhere in the meta FAQ or questions, but after searching for several minutes I can't find the logic clearly ...
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What is community moderation, and what can I do to help?
What is community moderation? Why is it important for me to get involved? What can I do to help, and where do I start?
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Why are there automatic moderator flags (autoflags) from the Community User, and what are they for?
Occasionally as a moderator I've noticed flags from the Community user. I've got a few questions: Why do they exist? What events trigger them? How might moderators act on them?
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Do posts in the first answers and first questions queues age out?
Do review items in the First questions and First answers queues age out of the queues? I tried finding this info in What are the guidelines for reviewing? but it doesn't say. Neither could I find the ...
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Why @Leigh or another user blocked my answer?
EXTREMELY IMPORTANT: This is not personal. I'm sure @Leigh's points of view are as good or better than mine. I just wanted to (re?)open a discussion on the general topic of FGITW, maybe from a ...
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Is it bad to skip a lot of suggested edits?
Often if there's a change in code and I don't know the language, then I don't want to risk approving an edit that changes the code from working to not working. Is it bad to skip a lot of suggested ...
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FAQ for Stack Exchange sites
Community FAQ For sites in the Stack Exchange 2.0 network To see a list of commonly used words and phrases, see the glossary. For official guidance from Stack Exchange, visit the Help Center. Asking ...
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"Community Evaluation" on established sites
If the Community Evaluation review queue is only for beta sites to help determine if/when the site is ready for graduation (so it says in the answer to What are the review queues, and how do they work?...
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Some posts from users who are not "new" users (e.g., one with over 620 answers & about 18,000 rep.) ending up in the First Posts queue
The Math SE post Do most numbers have exactly $3$ prime factors? currently has 2 answers. The top of the timeline for the question is Note the question's user SmallestUncomputableNumber has over 1,000 ...