For questions related to review audits that appear to fail their purpose.
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Close vote review failed
Today, I failed the following review audit in the "Close Votes" queue:
http://stackoverflow.com/review/close/2574688
From the question:
I'm building a project on phonegap using JQuery mobile.
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1answer
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Review Audit: highly upvoted but closed question
I did some First Post Reviews today and eventually got this question as an audit
C++ What optimizations do compilers still struggle with?
It has 20 upvotes but it's (rightly) closed as not ...
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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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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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1answer
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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0answers
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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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1answer
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Clearly wrong close review audit - what action to take? [duplicate]
I'm failing a non-zero amount of review audit question. Some of them are borderline which are a teaching moment for me. Others are clearly incorrect, and the question is totally inappropriate for ...
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1answer
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Tripped up by a test close question - was it me or a bad test?
I was just shown Facebook Blackberry SDK Error 500
as a test close question.
I voted to close as:
Not a real question - Yes, the question is 'how do I make my code work', with no code shown, no ...
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1answer
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Close vote review audit flawed - fails without casting vote
Having just failed my first review audit from any of the queues, it was reviewing close votes; however, this audit was flawed in that I didn't even cast a close vote.
Often I press the Close button ...
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It's rather difficult to look over an answer that doesn't exist
I just now failed an audit. When I went to review the audit, I was surprised to find it impossible to actually look over the answer. Here's a screenshot:
(Ha. Of course a nonexistent post contains ...
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1answer
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I don't get why I failed this review test
I got this as a review task:
Scanner not working instead of buffered reader
I read the post, added a comment that I thought would help clarify, and voted to leave open. However, it should have been ...
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2answers
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Close Vote Review Audits are too obvious
The other day, I got an obviously good question in a Close Vote Review. Even if I didn't read the question, +11 with 3 answers is a bit of a giveaway. Today I got one where the question was almost ...
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1answer
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Bug in review audits
I found a minor bug in "this is just a test" reviews.
I was reviewing a late answer on Stack Oveflow, and a review audit appeared. After reading the question to see if the answer had anything to do ...
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How is this a failed audit?
Look at Close Vote #1981832. There is no code provided in the question. How is this a failed audit for wanting to close it? For reference, here is a screenshot:
As for the votes, I took this ...
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Incorrect review audits false positives
Today I stumbled upon this review, which looked perfectly reasonable to me, so I decided to end the review with "No action".
Turns out, this was a review audit and apparently this edit "was of very ...
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1answer
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Why should this question have been reopened? [duplicate]
I was doing some reviews today, and I stumbled upon a question in the "Reopen Votes" queue that I decided to leave closed, while it was apparently an audit. Here is the audit that I failed.
I'm ...
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First post audit test using the answer of a 4 year old user with over 150k reputation
Well this isn't at all believable as a first post. http://stackoverflow.com/review/first-posts/1808747
Going by the comments, duffymo did in fact write that answer, but this was no way his first ...
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2answers
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I just failed a reopen audit despite having an opinion that this question should actually be closed
Audit in question is this: http://stackoverflow.com/review/reopen/1789773
This question was shown as closed for being Too Localized. Now don't get me wrong here, I haven't used the entity framework ...
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Yet another poor question as a reopen honeypot [duplicate]
How to unit test views in ember.js?
code not in question
request for vague best practice
a bunch of verbiage about where the op works and what they do
In short, "How can I write unit tests in ...
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2answers
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Am I wrong in thinking this review audit is incorrect?
I am of the opinion that such a question doesn't fit the Q&A format. From reading the FAQ, I thought it qualified as a chatty, open-ended question. Based on the answers in the question, it was ...
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3answers
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Are the suggested edit audits too easy?
Yes, this might be another post complaining about audits. But, in this case, I want the audits to be more difficult.
Specifically, I'm concerned that the suggested edits audits are just too darn easy ...
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Stupid audits (yes, again)
Could someone explain why this is not a valid answer? If the OP felt this was the answer to his question, then it is. If there isn't any other solution, this is the answer he was looking for. I'm ...
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Why is improving a suggested edit considered an audit failure? [duplicate]
I was doing some reviewing on Stack Overflow and saw one question that had a serious (wrong) spelling edit.
I wanted to reject it straight away, but I wanted to correct it first, since the ...
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Improper response to proper response to audit
For the first time I failed an audit in review, but I sure don't think I should have.
I saw the edit wasn't that good, so I hit the improve button to clean things up and got this message:
This ...
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A reopen queue review audit shouldn't show me a question that has an active bounty
While processing the reopen queue on Super User I was presented with this:
http://superuser.com/review/reopen/88150
I was immediately suspicious as a) the question was quite detailed and b) the only ...
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3answers
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Was this question a suitable review queue audit test?
I just got tripped up in the /review queue on this question
It showed up in the Re-Open queue, and seemed terribly written, and overly broad, so I voted to keep it closed. The audit notification ...
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2answers
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I failed a review audit by clicking Improve [duplicate]
See: http://stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/1581133.
I clicked Improve to see what exactly has been changed in the title. And then StackOverflow told me that I failed an review audit.
Now, ...
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Reopen Queue Failed Review Audit
OK I just failed a Reopen Review Queue Audit, here's the question in mention
I have the jar developed using the SNMP4J Agent source code. How can I
test run the Agent ? I would like to include a ...
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Bring a “human factor” into review audit composition/selection
Some people are complaining about the automatically generated audits. They are based on close reasons and apparently are a little controversial :-)
Failed low-quality review audit
Reopen Question ...
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Failed a Reopen Question audit — sure looks like “Not a real question” to me
I just failed this audit here, which was shown as being closed as "Not a real question".
Seeing as the vote count was positive, I figured it was an audit, but I selected "Leave Closed" anyways ...
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An edit is a Looks Good when not being audited and not one when doing an audit?
Related: Editing a Low Quality question is an implicit "looks good"; it shouldn't be
I just failed an audit in the Low Quality review queue. This one to be precise.
Here's a ...
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1answer
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Security Audit: First post, what was the proper reaction?
See http://stackoverflow.com/review/first-posts/1544210.
The question was already migrated to meta, so I clicked "no action needed", but got "review audit failed".
So what was the proper vote is ...
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Stupid audits (again)
This audit is just flat out stupid. It is a valid answer with a code example and good reasoning, although it may not be the right one from a technical perspective, but: THAT IS NOT THE POINT OF ...
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How do we select audits for Reopen review?
I occasionally fail audits for the Reopen review queue. My problem is not that I click without any thoughts, but that I honestly don't think the questions should have been reopened (had they been ...
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Reopen test on unmodified question
I got dinged for my disinclination to vote to reopen on http://stackoverflow.com/review/reopen/1470791.
Now, my policy is simple. If five people voted to close something, I don't second-guess them. ...
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Incorrect audits
Today, I failed an (unfair and incorrect) audit, the first one in a while, and I'm now banned from reviewing for two days. I naturally find this unfair and stupid, and I would really like to get the ...
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Reopen Question review audit fail clarification
I just got a review audit fail on a re-open review on the following link:
http://stackoverflow.com/review/reopen/1427142
I viewed the question as being far too open ended, and basically to be a ...
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Review Audit Giveaway
I just came across my first review audit over on SuperUser, but it was a bit of a giveaway:
Clicking through to the question shows there are actually 0 answers (as being a review-audit, this post ...
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Review audit failure
I have just failed a review audit on an answer by answering "No action needed". While this was fair enough based on the answer alone; the answer was to a question that was marked as closed, and both ...
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1answer
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An audit shows you that the question is already closed
This may be related to my question A review audit tells you there's 5 close votes already.
I just failed an audit in the First Posts review queue. The question clearly stated that it was closed ...
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Failed low-quality review audit
I recently came across this answer (to a question on implementing echo cancellation in Java) in the low quality review queue:
The only way to supress echo is to use "C" libary of AEC and call it ...
