Anything related to posts of low quality, such as flagging posts for "very low quality", or the low quality posts review task.
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What's the proper action for LQP reviews of answers to shopping questions? [duplicate]
I came across this low quality post review.
The answer is of, at best, minimal value. It's a link only answer without a link; all you can do is search against the supplied product name.
I hesitate ...
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Can't reasonably complete a low quality question review
I looked in the low quality review queue (there was a 1 on it). Turned out to be a question.
That is certainly not a looks good. I've already added a comment before it hit the queue (and have the ...
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Where does this “citations” banner come from? [duplicate]
I noticed that this answer that was hit with a few down votes had a message beneath it which I haven't seen before. I have looked in the help and can't find anything to state where it came from.
Is ...
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“very low quality” flag got helpful, but (non) answer still there
For starters, this is the answer I am talking about.
The question is ancient (2009) and is already answered.
How to declare an array in Java?
And the answer (a code only answer)
public ...
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Why was my low quality flag disputed? [duplicate]
I marked this question as very low quality, but my flag was disputed.
After reading the question again the phrase "I have got the answer here" might indicate that this is not a question at all. So I ...
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Include the option to flag posts as spam in the Low Quality queue
I guess this is an additional to previous requests like this and this.
But I just came across this review item, and was unable to flag it as spam.
edit: Since I posted this, the item has been ...
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While reviewing, why do I not get the option to see previous edits?
While reviewing low quality posts, I noticed a question that had been vandalized. I clicked edit so that I could do a rollback. However, there is no option to see the previous edits or rollback. I had ...
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In review queue, why don't I get all of the flag options?
I was reviewing a question that only said "kkkk...kkkkkk" so I clicked "Recommend Close". However, it does not give me all of the options, and the ones listed aren't sufficient:
The question was:
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Potentially bad audit for low-quality posts
So I just encountered this audit:
I passed, but is this really a good test? Yes, the answer was upvoted, but this is not a good answer by any means. I OKed it since it was obviously deemed as ...
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(Up)Voting on Low-Quality Posts in Review tasks
I've searched and have seen similar questions, which are often marked as duplicates and point one to Why is voting removed from the new review system. In the accepted answer from said thread, it says ...
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No Suitable Reason to Recommend Close [duplicate]
In reviewing low quality posts, I cannot see a suitable option to close this.
It was closed as:
The available options are as follows.
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Very low quality flag declined, and still question was closed as off-topic [duplicate]
My very low quality flag to this question (10k only now) was declined with the following reason
declined - a moderator reviewed your flag, but found no evidence to support it.
However, the ...
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Low quality flags declined [duplicate]
I have used very low quality flag for this question - was accepted.
But for this one - declined
Flag number 3: ohter: trivial question - accepted
Flag number 4: very low quality - declined. For the ...
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Declined flags do not show up in moderator history
I've been working in the Very Low Quality moderator queue today, but noticed that when I decline a flag, it doesn't show up in my moderator history (visible to SE and moderators only).
This is a bad ...
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Why were these “Very low quality” flags declined?
I flagged both this and that answers for "very low quality". The former because it's just a link without even a minimal summary, and the second because it isn't comprehensible whatsoever. Both were ...
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Low Quality Posts reviews add comments more than once on behalf of reviewer
This answer came in Low Quality Posts review which was reviewed as "This is commentary on another post, not an answer" by this user*. But the comment was added 5 times automatically on behalf of that ...
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Another Option Reviewing Low Quality Posts
When reviewing a low quality post. The whole point of the review is to maintain high standard of the site. There is a gap between answers that should be deleted or just improved bit.
I can see this ...
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Use low votes per view to raise for review as click-bait
I suggest that SO uses low votes per view as a reason to to raise questions for review.
Each time someone views a question, there is a chance they will vote it up, or vote it down. Someone that ...
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Answer isn't deleted even after 7 people recommending deletion [duplicate]
I reviewed an answer in the Low Quality queue yesterday and chose "Recommend deletion", but it doesn't seem to have done anything other than adding the autocomment. Other than the comment there's no ...
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Shouldn't first posts / late answers already offer the low quality post auto-comments?
If a first post or late answer is deemed bad, I feel flagging it as low quality is the correct step. But the post then ends up in the low quality posts queue, and only there the deletion-comment can ...
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Edited PostLowQualityAuto still get a downvote
Per this post from Jeff, the Very Low Quality flag:
The VLQ flag now carries a downvote from community. It is like "spam flag lite", meaning, no reputation penalty but like spam, it
incurs a ...
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Should incredibly low quality answers be blocked
Recently this "answer" was posted. The entire text was this (for when it is deleted):
dwaadwadadadawdwadsadsadsa dsa asldo as safd afik fa oidfawe fdaudf a aewuf aeiu
It is obviously completely ...
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Disallow VLQ flags on “on hold” questions
If a question is "on hold" - basically telling the user to improve it - there is little to no reason to flag it as VLQ. So I suggest to disallow this flag type on closed questions.
If a question ...
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Deleting an answer in the “low quality” moderator flag queue takes three deletes
In the moderator flag queue for Stack Overflow, if I delete an answer flagged as VLQ, it indicates that it's been deleted, while sending the call to the server.
However, the call fails the first two ...
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Can we make it a policy to promote the ELL beta on all our other sites?
I've just had this stroke of utter brilliance.
Every time someone posts some broken up and garbled question or answer in barely intelligible English, let's post a link to ell.stackexchange.com! One ...
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Improved formatting after raising a flag?
There was a Question (now closed) asked on security.SE which I found to be low quality and unclear. It was not clear what the OP was asking and he had appended the secret key to the cipher-text (It's ...
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Effectiveness of suggested answers?
Does anybody have some data on how effective the suggested answers are in preventing people from asking duplicate questions?
While some people make an effort to search, some people will click the ...
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Why is there no ability to Vote when reviewing a Low Quality Post? [duplicate]
In my time reviewing, I have noticed several Low Quality Posts which have been automatically flagged as such, and while "Looks Good" is a fine button to select, some of these posts warrant a vote (up, ...
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What exactly does a VLQ flag do?
I am a 3k user on SO, and so I don't cast very many VLQ flags. However, when a post looks like this:
hello I need to know why my app no worky when I doz dis plees help mee:
<badly ...
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Is there a rep cap for getting one's posts in the LQP review queue? [duplicate]
I was reviewing low-quality posts today, and came across this supposedly LQP.
Now, here's the catch: the post was made by a 110k user! Do we really not trust extremely high-rep users to make good ...
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Add attempts to game the “quality standards” filter to the Low Quality queue for review
People who are not capable of writing high quality questions are nonetheless capable of figuring out how to get past the quality filter. By and large they add a sentence whining about the quality ...
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Rename “Very Low Quality” Flag as “Unsalvageably Bad”
Current name and description of the flag:
very low quality
This question has severe formatting or content problems. This question is unlikely to be salvageable through editing, and might need ...
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Can flags send a post into the Low Quality Posts review queue?
I'm trying to clear the last few TODOs in What are the guidelines for reviewing?, so it can eventually go into the FAQ. The section on the Low Quality Posts queue currently says:
Questions appear ...
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Strange duplicated answers
ToAscii/ToUnicode in a keyboard hook destroys dead keys
This looks like a perfectly valid question, for a problem I'm having myself, but the answers are weird:
The top rated answer is pure nitpick ...
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Highlight deleted posts in Low Quality Posts history, similar to deleted flagged posts
I occasionally review my Low Quality Posts review history, and I like to confirm whether my action was correct/incorrect.
I would like to more easily confirm which posts were deleted. I think an easy ...
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First post answer is incomplete
So I was reviewing some first posts and came across an answer to a question that was definitely an answer, just an incomplete one that only answered half the question. So basically it was an answer, ...
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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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Stack Exchange is too harsh to new users—please help them improve low-quality posts and avoid being uncivil [duplicate]
Note
Please see my answer below. I am deeply sorry for having strayed so far from the principles of Stack Exchange. I have edited the post to remove the "wait before voting" text.
I've asked a ...
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Lower the weight of grammar and punctuation in the low-quality filter?
I've recently been seeing a lot more questions on meta regarding how to fix a question so it passes the Low Quality Filter, which was tweaked on 4/17 to be more strict, and the majority of the posts ...
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Low Quality post shows as “Review completed” with all “Delete” votes, but it's not deleted?
This answer currently shows "Review completed 21 mins ago" with one "Delete" vote and five "Recommend Deletion" votes.
However, the answer is still visible on the page; how can the review be ...
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Why doesn't my post meet quality standards?
I am trying to post this question, but it gets rejected as not meeting quality standards. What can I do to fix it?
I have a django application runnin using django cms. I am trying to
make one ...
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First Draft: Bad Question Flags
Should first draft questions that are bad from the start be flagged immediately or should time be allowed for them to be improved, according to comments?
You can obviously tell a bad question from a ...
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How to deal with questionable quality self-answer while being encouraging?
This question was asked a week or so ago and wasn't particularly clear in my opinion. The OP suggested they were trying to provide their own answer for the purpose of sharing knowledge.
The OP has ...
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How did this “Plz Help me its urgent” question make it through the filter? [duplicate]
This is the question: Can resolve chat in jsf primeface. Plz Help me its urgent
Is the filter malfunctioning? Surely "plz help" and "urgent" are excellent bad-quality indicators!
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Noticing A Series Of Low Quality Questions
Since yesterday I have been seeing a series of low quality questions being asked on SO? Wasn't there some kind of a script that prevented such questions from being posted? Forgive my lack of knowledge ...
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Questions and answers not appearing in the Low Quality queue?
I noticed this answer (now since deleted, and 10k-only) on SO that had a number of canned comments which indicated to me that it had entered the Low Quality review queue.
Noticing the answer was ...
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This post does not meet our quality standards, with no reason why [duplicate]
I'm getting the above error, but this makes absolutely no sense to me.
Considering my large site experience, I'm pretty sure that I can at least grasp the basics.
You could mention what is wrong ...
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Should the lack of a question mark affect the question's quality score?
See this post, which I think is a low quality one but wasn't prevented from being posted.
Given that it's a question shouldn't it have at least one question mark?
So, should the quality filter ...
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What should be done when a user circumvents a quality ban?
A user asked a question here on Meta about deleting his account. It was closed as a duplicate, but reading the comments I garnered that the user had been previously question banned, and was looking to ...
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I can't vote but can accept on low quality review
While I cannot vote when reviewing a low quality post, it is possible to accept it (when it is an answer to your own question). I don't think that's meant this way?
