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Is Stack Exchange planning to use AI to flag, review, and draft posts?
I just saw this rather concerning blog post. Amongst other things, it says that Stack Exchange is
exploring ways in which AI and ML [(Machine Learning)] can assist community users in writing drafts ...
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How should First Answers that are basically "never mind, I realized my question was invalid" be reviewed?
I occasionally run into questions like this one in the "First Answers" queue. The question is a good, high-effort question (for a new user), but the answer (posted by the original asker) is ...
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What happens to a user's pending edits when they subsequently gain enough reputation for their edits to be applied without peer review? [duplicate]
For example, on the Law stack 1,000 reputation earns one a privilege so that
Edits to other users’ posts are applied immediately
And
In addition, users with this privilege level can also begin ...
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Can there be suggested edit audits that should be approved?
There has been some discussion over the years about the quality of suggested edit audits and the possibility of there being audits where the correct action is approve:
Are there tests of suggested ...
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Allow opting out of review queues notifications
Yes, we should all serve our military duty.
https://stackoverflow.com/help/privileges/access-review-queues
But for those that aren't interested, we shouldn't need to rely on hacks.
Opting out of ...
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Why is there no "duplicate answer" comment on late answer reviews? [duplicate]
When reviewing Late Answers, the Delete option description reads
Answer does not address the question, is a duplicate, or cannot be improved.emphasis added
as shown here:
However, when I select ...
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Low quality posts: Other Action
When reviewing answers in the Low quality posts review queue there seems like there should be an option for other action instead of just looks okay, edit, and delete/recommend deletion. I am asking ...
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Somebody needs to watch the health of review queues, network-wide
What I've noticed is that on many sites reviews fall by the wayside. They either don't get done, or there's some other major problem with how they're being done (e.g., robo-reviewing). This is most ...
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It appears that people are making simple edits and answers just for reputation points
I hesitate to ask questions on Stack Exchange as usually I will get lots of edits and answers, but usually the edits are formatting and spelling, and the answers are simplistic (e.g., read the ...
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What can I do if an answer in the "First Answers" Review Queue is objectively wrong?
All the options presented to me through the UI do not seem to address the situation correctly. Here is a screenshot of the options available to me.
And here are the Share Feedback options.
The only ...
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The new Code of Conduct didn't address significant feedback given. Why ask if you won't incorporate feedback?
Some of the content is unnecessarily verbose. I had pointed some examples out during the review of the draft (both when it was shared with moderators and again in the public review). The "...
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Leaving a Question Closed for a Non-Existent Reason
Things on the Stack Exchange network change over time, as they should.
One relatively recent change was that made to the workflow in the "Reopen votes" review queue, when a reviewer chooses ...
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Edit stuck in limbo - what do I do?
I edited my question (How do I resolve Wix form 'Couldn't submit due to temporary issue' error?) to reverse changes someone had made (and seemed unhelpful).
The review of my edit has been ...
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'Suggested edit queue is full' displayed on every question I try to edit [duplicate]
I've tried editing more than 20 questions as a test and they all showed that Suggested edit queue is full message. Then I tried again literally 4 seconds after a question was uploaded (when I clicked ...
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Have covert review audits been secretly rolled-out on some sites?
Recently, in the last few weeks I've noticed a shift, reviews turning-up particularly in the reopen queue which show no indication of having been edited to be any more on-topic. (Of course, they've ...
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No feedback after submitting a closed question for review [closed]
My question was closed 3 days ago for being off-topic
Programming Exercises UX
I made the necessary changes in order to comply with the guidelines, following the feedback I was given. I haven't heard ...
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How many reviewers can perform an action on a review task? [duplicate]
I am trying to learn how review tasks are implemented, but not finding enough details. Basically my question boils down to what actions can a user perform, how many users can perform an action on the ...
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OP rejected my edit and resubmitted it under their name
Recently I stumbled upon an answer which had a small bug (incorrect variable name) pointed out in the comments. To achieve better reader experience, I edited this comment into the answer.
The OP of ...
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Is there a maximum time limit to approve a suggested edit?
Usually, my suggestions are approved within 48 hours, but I have a suggested edit that is pending now for several days. In this case, I don't see any chance that it will be either approved or rejected ...
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Review queue history is not directly accessible to low-rep users, but is still accessible via URL enumeration
One of the 10k privileges is the ability to see reviews by other users in the review history pages, e.g. https://meta.stackexchange.com/review/close/history. (With less reputation, you only see your ...
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Suggestion: exclude the author from the pool of edit review candidates to limit bias? [duplicate]
Sometimes I suggest an edit even on an SE site on which I have few reputation points, just to improve readability. In such cases the edit awaits review by a user with more reputation.
But here's the ...
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Disable "First Questions" Queue for those who have spent all their Close Votes
When a reviewer has used up their daily close vote quota (50 on SO), the "Close Votes" review queue is no longer available to them and does not show up in the "Review queues" ...
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What is the correct procedure for reviewing when you have too many edits pending?
I was recently working through some of the Late Answers review queue on Stack Overflow, but had a question regarding what to do when a user has "too many pending edits" and is unable to take ...
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Approve and leave closed, review again in reopen queue
In the suggested edit review queue I voted to Approve and leave closed, while another reviewer voted Approve and reopen. The other reviewer's action sent the post to the Reopen queue, which is by ...
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Meta SE's "access review queues" privilege mentions queues that don't exist
Having just earned 2k reputation, I received access to the first available review queues.
This is what the description on the Privileges page says:
Access the First posts and Late answers review ...
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Can the review-needed indicator be based on votes about to age away, rather than total tasks?
As a moderator, I generally ignore the close votes queue for the reasons outlined here, on the (apparently false) assumption that if a review queue requires attention, then it will turn red. However, ...
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First answers review queue - Edit queue is full at the moment
I have recently reached the possibility of using the "review queues". Often and willingly I try to help the community of Stack Overflow as I can, focusing mainly on the "first questions&...
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We should earn Steward without using the queue or we should be able to look more than 3 tags on filter
If we see a question that has a number on the close link, this indicates a problem with the question. If we properly read the question and agree on this close reason then we can immediately click ...
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Reviewing First answers: Is a flag enough or should I also leave a comment?
I was recently awarded privileges to review 'First answers'. I was asked to review an answer that was this:
Answered and solved by @other_user
And the @other_user had submitted an answer themselves.
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How to encourage 'real' responses from review, rather than rubber-stamp comments
We've now all seen the message
Please clarify your specific problem or provide additional details to highlight exactly what you need. As it's currently written, it's hard to tell exactly what you're ...
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Curse of the red blob (more than usual)
On the biology stack I comparatively recently started performing basic reviews, the last two days (this being the third) the first-post review queue has contained a notification red-blob, and during ...
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Will the "Content Health" feature come to public Q&A on Stack Exchange?
It was announced in The Overflow today there's a new Content Health feature is being launched on Stack Overflow for Teams. Are there currently plans to introduce this to public Q&A sites on Stack ...
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Review queue workflows: impact of significant edit feature on Reopen queue
In August, we released a new feature, significant edits, that changed how posts enter the Reopen queue. As promised, we conducted a data analysis to determine whether or not users are abusing the new ...
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First question workflow - Does Stack Exchange need a 'question needs more detail' canned response?
When I look at the First Questions queue I often encounter questions that make perfect sense, so the 'question is unclear' response isn't really appropriate. What the question needs isn't clarity but ...
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Three-vote close/reopen test - results
Three-vote close and reopen has been something I've been thinking about for ... a really long time. I'm really happy to finally be able to present the results of this test to you all. This post is ...
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Why has a user's second question appeared in the "first question" review queue?
This question over at LawSE has just popped up as a First Question review, but it's the user's second question (this is the first) which doesn't seem right to me.
Am I missing something or is it a ...
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"Other action" in "First answers" doesn't fully complete the review
Following community feedback to the recent changes in review queues, as in this answer (and some other, very similar requests on that post), the UI team have now added an "Other action" ...
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Proposal for awarding credit towards First Questions/Answers badges based on First Posts activity
Update (2021-09-14): This is now live
See below for details on how it works. Carryover credit for First posts review work is now being taken into account when calculating eligibility for the Reviewer ...
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The canned comments left by the Community user are less than helpful, in some cases [duplicate]
I've seen a few examples:
A comment on a post about licensing on Software Engineering indicating that the post needs clarification. The post is clear enough to know that it is off-topic. Editing for ...
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Resolving Community user and "share feedback" issues in review queues
On our announcement for our updates to review queue workflows, we got a ton of feedback on the Community user being the one posting comments for users. Here's a quick summary of some of the major ...
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Consecutive _good_ suggested edits on the same post by the same user [duplicate]
Is it okay for one user to suggest multiple consecutive edits?
Assuming:
Both (or all) of the edits are good suggestions.
They were all suggested within a short enough time period that the first edit ...
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Frequency of appearing of audits in review queues - WHEN do they appear?
I've asked the same question on Mathematics Stack Exchange meta, as my experience explained below was on the MathSE site. It seemed that the situation is something network-wide, and therefore I tried ...
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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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Changing the question reopening experience
Now that the Public Platform team is actively working on updating review queue workflows, it’s time we address the feedback and feature requests related to the question reopening experience.
How it ...
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Why is information about triage and help and improvement review queues there in help centers of non-SO sites?
In the What are review queues? help center articles of non-Stack Overflow sites, there is some information about triage and help and improvement review queues.
Triage – Stack Overflow only - 500 ...
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Can we have more options for low-quality reviews?
This post is motivated in part by a post I made on a site's meta, Why is this clearly wrong answer "Looks OK"?
When an answer is wrong, and the consensus is not to delete because it is an ...
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Testing three-vote close and reopen on 13 network sites
Test is live!
The 13 sites below have their votes to close set at 3. I've also reduced the votes needed for migrations to 2 (down from 3).
Almost two years ago I ran a test for single vote closure/...
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Why does accepting an edit require additional reviewers even when I as a reviewer can singlehandedly edit without any need for approval?
This question has been asked more than ten years ago already, but was de-facto declined by a staff member.
Many questions in the field of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript can be presented as a runnable ...
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Workflow changes for review queues
[Update: June 01, 2021]
First and foremost, thanks again to the community members for providing their thoughts and feedback on this phase of the project. We read through the community responses 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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