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Is this @Mitch's fault?
After clicking around a bit through Andrew's link, I found this explanation of how the Late Answers Review queue works:
The way the late answers queue works is by checking two things.
Was the answer ...
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Gosh! 82 Close Vote Reviews in one day
The direct answer is that yes, moderators can cast unlimited numbers of votes to close, reopen, delete, or undelete posts because these are considered moderation activities. You must just have been ...
tchristMod
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The close vote in review queue is meant to be cast judiciously
Perhaps some review queue reviewers who feel that the site is overrun with cruddy questions are loath to waste any of their allotted 20 daily review votes on keeping acceptable questions open, since ...
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The close vote in review queue is meant to be cast judiciously
It's much less bad than you can see in your view. Moderators can also see which reviews were deliberately skipped.
I can't tell you specifics, but on average for every two or three entries you do ...
tchristMod
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Would ELU like to start a trial of needing only 3 votes to close/reopen a question?
I think it is broke, and this would be worth at least trialling.
Currently there are over 160 questions in the review queue. I confess I don't use the queue much; I simply don't have the time and ...
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Difference between 'No Action Needed' and 'Skip'
In clicking "No Action Needed" you make a judgement, and the system will use your judgement to help decide what action to take in respect of a post. It may be that your click, when combined with other ...
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Would ELU like to start a trial of needing only 3 votes to close/reopen a question?
Would ELU like to start a trial of only need 3 votes to close/reopen a question?
Update April 30, 2021
Community Managers are working to implement this now.
No, thank you.
To close a question all ...
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What if senior users could put on hold "proofreading" questions single-handedly?
I've often thought that a "weak" close would be useful - a way for folks with some knowledge in a given area to quickly take a new question off the table so that it could be discussed, edited, etc.
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Too many "No Action Needed" on First Posts?
Choosing No Action Needed is not a behavior that needs to be done less, but rather more appropriately. In the instructions, it says "when this post needs no action from you." Interpreted generously, ...
Kit Z. FoxMod
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WTH is up with the 'beyond 300' review queue?
This is perhaps an inevitable affliction of mature Stack Exchange sites. The closure review queue grows due to a confluence of several factors.
I have found that empirically, user reputation scores ...
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Would ELU like to start a trial of needing only 3 votes to close/reopen a question?
Although implementing this proposal carries obvious risks, it is worth trying because it promises to reduce the number of questions that are closed after being answered.
The purpose of closing seems ...
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When is it reasonable to reject a suggested edit that fixes a broken link in a LQ post?
@Mari-Lou A wrote:
Several links in my posts have been fixed by this user, and I've always given the green light. Fixing a corrupt link is nearly always a good thing, regardless of the post or ...
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Would ELU like to start a trial of needing only 3 votes to close/reopen a question?
I can't deny I've been remiss in not going through the review queue so often lately.
But when I do tackle the "Closevote" queue, I invariably hit my daily limit (20 VTC), because the queue is so long....
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Six votes recommending deletion, but not deleted
It's because it had a net positive score at the time that six recommends were racked up.
There's a notice on it. Eventually if the user doesn't return pretty soon and fix it up, it will probably be ...
tchristMod
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Is this @Mitch's fault?
I was hoping that the powers above The Powers That Be could reverse the settings, but apparently they cannot.
Please roll back this change immediately. We have now a 3.2k entries long review queue ...
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Would ELU like to start a trial of needing only 3 votes to close/reopen a question?
UPDATE
After reviewing the stats, it looks like this change has been very much beneficial for you all. While you had been doing in the 40-80% completion range for questions gaining at least one flag ...
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Would ELU like to start a trial of needing only 3 votes to close/reopen a question?
The evident purpose of this proposal is to make it easier to close bad questions quickly. To the extent that it would promote that goal without producing undesirable side effects, I have no objection ...
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Would ELU like to start a trial of needing only 3 votes to close/reopen a question?
I'm a frequent close voter, and I think it's worth a try.
There's a double-layered effect where misdirected questions often get answers that are of poor quality, which further increases the queue ...
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Is it possible to have closevote limits increased for EL&U?
Based upon Jeff Atwood's answer to Should Available Close Votes Be a Function of Inflation or Rep?, made in 2011, I surmise that the answer to the titular question is yes, it is possible. Sci-Fi and ...
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WTH is up with the 'beyond 300' review queue?
This site gets lots of new users who post questions which aren't up to scratch. I would guess that a long term average of 40% closed is on the high end across the network.
Perhaps something that ...
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How can we get more 10k and 20k users to help clean up the site?
I am a compulsive tidy-upper and throw-it-awayer, so I jumped on the Delete Queue enthusiastically and voted to delete five questions I thought had no redeeming qualities. I was too hasty on one of ...
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Low quality answer review. Skip button vs Looks okay button
Should I hit "looks okay" to clear it from the queue and give the suggestion some time, or should I hit "skip" to keep it in the queue?
You be the judge.
Review process takes a while. If the OP ...
NVZMod
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Would ELU like to start a trial of needing only 3 votes to close/reopen a question?
The requirements for close-voting have only been reduced recently, but already I have experienced expedited closure for off-topic questions, and I can say it's already an improvement. Much better ...
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WTH is up with the 'beyond 300' review queue?
...as of a week later from posting, we're down to ~70. Keep going!!
Wow...WTH. Did I say something wrong?
831 Late Answers
StackExchange implemented a change to the way they evaluate late ...
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How can I see how many posts are truly in the review queue?
The easiest way is to open the review page in an incognito/private browser window.
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The close vote in review queue is meant to be cast judiciously
If I am working through a queue, it is precisely because I am judicious that you'll see four closevotes from me in three seconds. It's because I haven't looked at four questions in three seconds, I've ...
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The close vote in review queue is meant to be cast judiciously
One small factor to remember is that while four or five close votes are often needed to take a question out of the queue, only three keep open votes are needed. So even if the queue was balanced with ...
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Review result page did not show the actual post
Now after checking through review results from many of my past reviews, it seems to me that this is by design for reviews of Questions - so no actual post is shown in the result page.
Only the ...
NVZMod
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Review queue notification
If you're using the desktop site, you should find a number in a brown background in the site header which shows the number of review tasks which are open to you to do. Here's mine:
It's possible that ...
Andrew LeachMod
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