Questions tagged [review]
Use for questions that discuss the proper way of reviewing items in the review queue, or the review queue mechanism itself.
40 questions
-1 votes
2 answers
128 views
Remove answers already commented by some moderator from review queues
I'm left surprised by some answer presented in the late answers review queue. Considering Kusalananda (it could have been whatever other moderator) commented that answer 16 hours ago without taking ...
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3 votes
1 answer
130 views
Unintuitive behavior of "Suggested Edits" review queue
Today, I found an edit suggestion in my review queue where the question that was to be edited had already been deleted. It looks like a moot point to keep such items in the review queue. Is this a bug,...
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8 votes
0 answers
189 views
Quick answer for "I need someone to make me a script that does <x>"
This is different from questions for software suggestions. Those are questions for scripting in the answer, almost like a commission to have someone write a shell script or use some other scripting ...
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21 votes
0 answers
258 views
Reviewing has become harder
Is it just me or has reviewing become harder with the changed interface? It now takes two clicks where I'm sure it used to take only one. Not a lot of difference perhaps, but enough to put me off. I'...
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21 votes
2 answers
306 views
Moderator deleted my answer -- too rashly?
At 2am this morning (local time), I posted this answer to a question (not mine) that had also been bugging me for years. I had just figured out how to resolve it, and wanted to share it with the OP (@...
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1 vote
2 answers
333 views
Are new users subjected to prejudicial or intensified scrutiny by reviewers?
I have an experience to share as a new contributor to unix.stackexchange.com where I sensed some slight undercurrents of prejudice. It would be great to receive a response from the users mentioned ...
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2 votes
1 answer
122 views
Unfriendly or unkind flag rejects stick even after flagged comments are deleted
https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/606142/22653 contained some unnecessarily unkind responses which I flagged as unkind. One was a blatantly rude response to a legitimate query that an acronym be ...
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-8 votes
2 answers
131 views
Why does reviewers not accept? Reject the edits without understanding
I had edited an answer, based on my search and experience. Like this one. I am not sure if the peer reviewer understood the question, and then my answer. If these are the reviewers, then this ...
13 votes
1 answer
185 views
Why can we not vote to migrate a question to superuser.com?
When we vote to close as off topic, we can select one of a couple of sites to forward the question to such as stackoverflow.com I'm surprised that superuser.com isn't listed as an option. Is there a ...
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17 votes
2 answers
311 views
"Suggestion should be comment", but it really shouldn't
I made a suggested edit on a recent answer. The author of the answer provided a nice solution to the question, but it looks like he didn't have the time to debug it, so his script ended up with some ...
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16 votes
2 answers
497 views
How to tackle the gray area in reviewing low-quality answers?
It is not infrequent to see controversial reviews of specific kinds of answers in the Low Quality Posts review queue. Those answers are often short, made at most of a few commands or links with few to ...
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1 vote
2 answers
194 views
Where should this go, assuming it is right format for stackexchange sites
I ran into this question: Can the empty spaces/background in a terminal be replaced with a random(but pretty) pattern of ASCII characters? And while I thought it a very interesting question, I ...
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17 votes
2 answers
176 views
Reviewing edits
I've noticed a some edits in the review queue that I'm not sure on the best action, so I'm asking for guidance. In general these edits are on answers and they typically add information... but it's ...
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4 votes
1 answer
68 views
bumped to the homepage
In the close review queue I sometimes see questions marked with: bumped to the homepage by Community♦︎ 8 hours ago and This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it ...
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3 votes
0 answers
41 views
Red notification when review queue is too long
I've see a small bug, I've reviewed 20 vote close today, and though I can't consult the vote close queue, I still have the red notification icon in review queue while I can't consult it, I think it ...
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