Test items in review queues that are designed to help new reviewers hone their moderation skills, while nudging more experienced users that don't seem to be paying close attention to what they're reviewing.
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User activity tab seems to be missing successful “flag as not an answer” audits
My activity tab on SO shows a single audit pass (no-action-needed a good answer) followed by earning two Custodian badges (one for First Posts, one for Late Answers, don't remember which order). Where ...
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Not allowed to comment on high quality posts when reviewing? [duplicate]
I just failed a review audit for attempting to add a comment to a pretty good answer.
(The intention was to ask a clarifying question.)
What's the etiquette for this?
Are comments only supposed to be ...
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1answer
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Negative reputation of users in review audits
I was reviewing posts today and got the following post to review:
Note how the user has negative reputation.
If I may add "seems legit".
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1answer
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Review Audits confusing Questions and Answers
Failed another high quality review audit (for trying to make a comment).
However, I discovered something interesting. It would be a good idea if the the there was a match between question and answer.
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1answer
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How Are Review Audit Posts Selected
I have noticed a change in the review audits, and from others feedback, I was wondering if these audits are effective.
I failed this review audit. I was going to flag it, as I could not find the ...
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Review audits catching me for posting an innocuous comment [duplicate]
I was reviewing a post, and had spent some time reading the question and answer and going to the link provided in the answer. I was going to leave a comment asking the answerer what they meant by 4 ...
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Review ban after skipping a review
So I received the following message today after clicking the 'Skip' button on a close vote review because I guess I took too long to vote on it and it said it was already closed when I tried to vote.
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Clicking “Add comment” fails review audit
I just failed these review audits in First Post, I read the question and thought it seemed reasonable but the user was deleted so to be on the safe side I clicked add comment and I failed the audit.
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Review test passed after only reading comments
I think I have found a bug. I was reviewing "late answers" on Stack Overflow. I've clicked the show comments button, on the original question, and immediately after that I got a message, that it was ...
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Review audits and “I understand” button
This is somewhat specific to StackOverflow. My concern is the "I understand" button that appears when you fail a Review Audit.
I had this experience twice recently (after never having previously ...
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1answer
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Getting what appear to be reopen audits in close vote queue [duplicate]
I just noticed this:
Really? A closed question is in the close vote queue? Not likely.
It seems that the action to take on these is to click leave open - which passes the audit. I got another one ...
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Review Audits on Reopen votes is too subjective
I was just asked to review the following question:
Is there a conventional way of returning error statuses from JSON web services?
I voted no, it shouldn't be reopened. It's subjective and open to ...
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Replace review audits with checks against the quorum
Audits are a terrible metric. They have little significance within the scope of reviews, and say very little about the reviewer. Using an algorithm to select audits doesn't work particularly well, and ...
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Bypassing close review audits
It is very easy to bypass close review audits. The steps are:
Open the question in new tab and check if there are any close votes on the question. For example, this question has 4 close votes so this ...
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Concerned about review audit on close review queue
I just failed a review on this question.
This looks like a typical example of a question where the asker didn't show a sufficient attempt at solving the problem him/herself and should thus be closed ...
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Nothing to do in this review but “No action needed” [duplicate]
http://programmers.stackexchange.com/review/first-posts/33771
In this locked question it is not possible to do anything. Only "No action needed" and "Skip" are enabled, and clicking that will throw ...
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Review Audit with no option to flag, downvote or comment
I came across a late answer review for a Community Wiki post.
It was (to me) obvious it was an audit. However, I did not have any options to do anything about the post. My options were to Skip, or to ...
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1answer
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Apparent mistake in review audit system [closed]
As you all may know, when reviewing other people's posts we get the tricky question every once in a while (I think it's like one in ten or something like that) to see if we're paying attention. I got ...
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Another review audit failed
Preamble:
In the past I failed several audits and I accepted the 2 days break.
Because there is a suspension mechanism, now I skip all the reviews where I'm not 200% sure that is not a tricky test.
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Eeeeek! Close review audit shows you that the question is already on hold [duplicate]
I just got this audit for close votes. But it says me that the question is already on hold.
I realized that this it an audit. And I clicked on Close. Hurrah! I passed an audit without any ...
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Bug in close vote review audits [duplicate]
Whenever I get a close votereview audit for which the good answer is to close the question there are no reasons listed, it simply shows:
Should this question be closed as: ? (more)
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Audits that are incorrect
I just failed an audit for attempting to close a duplicate question.
The audit was for the question: http://stackoverflow.com/review/close/2393046
I was going to mark it as a duplicate as I was sure ...
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Close review audits which should be left open show a close notice box [duplicate]
Some review audits in /review/close for which the "correct" answer is Leave Open are showing an obviously fake close notice.
If it is proposed to vote to close a question, it should not be shown as ...
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Bug: Audit failure message in re-open queue - after choosing correct action
This review in the reopen queue produced the stop-look-and-listen suggestion you should Close such questions Which I did by clicking the leave-closed button ... as history confirms
Might be related ...
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Audit has shown too much detail about the post making the audit obvious [duplicate]
Story:
While doing some reviews on Close-Votes on SO I've been presented a question to review that got a
This question was closed by xxx, yyy, zzz
footer. I was surprised, but still I've ...
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Flaw in the Close Vote Review audit fail text
I just failed a close vote audit. The quality of the audit is arguable, but that's not the point here.
The point is what it told me afterwards.
STOP! Look and Listen.
This was an audit, ...
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Close vote review audit is broken - displays “on hold” while reviewing [duplicate]
I just reviewed this:
http://stackoverflow.com/review/close/2385381
But while reviewing, it already displays the "put on hold as not a real question" section, and it asked:
Should this question ...
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1answer
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I can't review for two days after failing one audit
I was reviewing Low Quality Answers and I failed an audit (I kind of think the audit was wrong, but this isn't what this is about. Then again, I may have just made a mistake).
I was a bit shocked to ...
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How to access history of review audits
I have just been banned from reviews for 1 month and have no idea why - I didn't fail a review immediately before the ban appeared (I've had a few fails before [mostly unfair, in my opinion]) so not ...
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Don't make us click through the reject dialog on Suggested Edit audits
tl;dr: Make the reject button in the suggested edit queue pass audits without a dialog.
I've reviewed over 700 suggested edits, so I have had my fair share of audits.
Unlike the other queues, ...
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Move the audit check later in the review process [duplicate]
I'd like to see the audit check moved later in the process from (currently) when the user initially clicks the close button, to the vote to close button 1 screen later.
Recently I failed an audit ...
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Did this review audit react invalidly?
I recently received the big red failure message for reviewing this audit review, which now says I "passed" the audit.
For my review, I had intended to (1) downvote, (2) leave a comment, and (3) flag ...
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Hide rep during review audits [duplicate]
I just encountered this review audit and quality of the audit itself aside, the rep of the user more or less invalidated the audit before I even had to read the answer. I know audits are suppose to be ...
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1answer
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How is this a failed reopen audit?
I failed a reopen audit. To be specific, reopen queue #2326624. The question appears to have been closed as "Too Localized". That may not have been the right reason to close it, but I still shouldn't ...
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What to do when a new user makes a post with a helpful link
Today I failed a test when reviewing late answers from new users. The user made a post with a single link and I didn't do anything with it.
The answer was useful, but it should have been a comment ...
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Reward for Passing Review tests?
Just wanted to see what the community thought of adding a reward to passing the review tests? Maybe a 1 point reward?
I know seeing the tests in the review area has helped me be extra careful when ...
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Add “too minor” audits to review queue
I've thought about proposing this for a while. It would be very easy to make or curate "too minor" review audits. Chances are, many of them are approved. I don't know how big of a problem it is for ...
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should not review audits be less confusing and tricky? [duplicate]
I failed another closing review audit (Link) today, anyway i find this one really a bad audit, its an accepted question with two answers, the issue is clear there, should not audits refer to clearly ...
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Questionable deletion used as review audit
There seems to be a lack of rigour in selecting review audits.
I just "failed" a "Late answers" audit for not choosing to flag an already-deleted answer for this SO question.
The deleted answer is a ...
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1answer
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Failed an audit due to a misclick and am now temporarily suspended from reviews
I was doing some reviews on StackOverflow, and failed an audit due to a misclick. Now I have to wait a couple of days before doing any more. Has the threshold changed from more than one failure to 1 ...
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Should deleted posts be used for review audits?
I reviewed this post in the First Posts queue.
Which said
i changed it to 'localsystem' and done. thanks much
So it obviously was a potential low quality post. But sometimes such answers can ...
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2answers
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Should review aim to determine the correctness of an answer?
I've been reviewing quite a lot recently and, from reading around and questions asked here, was under the impression that reviewing a late answer shouldn't really be about determining it's ...
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Skipping close vote audits successfully
I've been reading about close vote review audits for quite some time now. I used to think that these audits appear only for users who do not have either of Steward or the Reviewer badges; which is ...
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Stop bothering me with suggested edit review audits
I have spent considerable time reviewing suggested edits. Less so lately, mainly because of the brokenness around improving, but more and more because those !*#^)(@^&#)@ audits are getting on my ...
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Self-deleted questions display as deleted in an audit
This First Posts review audit is of the answer of a self-answered question, where the question was deleted by the original author.
It's really obvious that the question has been deleted and ...
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Who audits the audit reviews?
I just failed an audit by not voting to reopen this SO question.
But, IMHO, it's a poor fit for SO and should be closed. I wouldn't hesitate to close it if I stumbled upon it as "off topic" or maybe ...
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Is this a good review audit?
I just failed a Low Quality Posts audit. Huh. This one.
Here's the thing: It looked OK to me - it answered the question. Why was it bad?
I can't see it anymore - you might need to be 10k to see it.
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Why shouldn't this question be closed? [duplicate]
I failed in an audit and I'm not sure why.
I would flag this question as not a real question because in the faq We have the following:
What kind of questions should I not ask here?
You should ...
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Delay before review audit for “Late Answers”
The last two days (since the flag-bug to be exact) I noticed a delay of about 3 seconds when reviewing late answers, but only right before an audit which makes it easy to guess.
Is there a reason for ...
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I failed an audit because it should have been a comment
I just completed a review for a late post which turned out to be an audit. The answer was supposed to be a comment but based on the user's reputation being 31 I understood that the user did not have ...
