##Guidelines for reviewing low-quality posts
Questions appear in the low-quality-post queue both by algorithm and by very-low-quality or not-an-answer flags from users.
Basic workflow
Check if the post can be improved. If you can raise its quality above the threshold of acceptability, Edit it. Keep in mind that editing within the queue will be a unilateral Looks OK vote, so be careful with edits that just make minor improvements (“repainting the titanic as it sinks”).
If you think that an answer is not an answer to the question at all or incomprehensible, Recommend Deletion (see common reasons below). If you haven’t left an individual comment or upvoted an existing one, consider choosing an appropriate canned comment from the list. If you think that a question should be closed, Recommend Close.
If the above doesn’t apply, choose Looks OK. This is the correct choice for answers that are just wrong.
If you are unsure, Skip it.
Most of the time, the reviewer should not need domain expertise to perform the review.
If you have sufficient reputation to cast close votes, Recommend Close turns into Close. If you can vote to delete, Recommend Deletion turns into Delete.
Common cases
[QA] Spam or offensive posts: click the "link" to the post, and cast its corresponding flag. Do not "recommend deletion" or "delete" in the queue.
[Q] Closeworthy questions: Recommend Close brings up the regular close dialogue.
[A] Comments posted as an answer: This is common from users who do not have the 50 reputation required to comment, but feel they have something useful to say. Nonetheless, recommend deletion. If the answer would actually be a constructive comment, consider flagging it for moderator attention.
[A] “Thank You” answers, “I’m having this problem, too” answers and different questions posted as answers: These are considered noise; answers must be actual answers. Recommend deletion and choose the corresponding canned comment. Consider leaving an individual comment to help with the choice of asking a new question or to recommend improvements on a possible new question.
[A] Link-only answers: These tend to break under maintenance of the linked reference. Users should be encouraged to include the essential parts of the solution in the answer's body. Note that, only if the answer is fully worthless without the link, it actually is a link-only answer. Also watch out for spam.
- If the information behind the link is worth having, not already included in other answers and can be edited in, do so (beware of copyright infringements, though).
- If the link is helpful but it’s inherently impossible to edit the information in (e.g., if the link is to a video or copyrighted image), recommend deletion and if the answer would make a useful comment, consider flagging for moderator attention.
- If the information behind the link is redundant to existing answers, recommend deletion
[A] Answers that fail to address the question: If you evaluate the answer such, first check carefully whether there is a lack of clarity in the question that you and the answer’s author may have interpreted differently. Otherwise recommend deletion. Leave an explaining comment in both cases.
[QA] Gibberish: If the post is clearly not intended to be understandable, recommend deletion or vote to close as unclear what you are asking.
[QA] Incomprehensible posts: Improve what you can and leave a comment for the author. Vote to close questions as unclear what you are asking. Recommend deleting an answer, if what is understandable does not make for an answer.
[QA] Bad formatting, spelling, structure and language: Improve it or leave a comment to the author. If there is no other problem and the post is understandable, choose Looks OK.
[A] Wrong and unhelpful answers: If you can fix it without making an intrusive edit, do so. Otherwise, leave a comment explaining what’s wrong and possibly downvote. If there is no other problem, choose Looks OK.
