Questions tagged [review]
For questions about the /review path where users can view and act on posts by other users that the system thinks may need attention.
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Community ♦ has gained sentience and is posting bad comments, what should I do?
On Thursday the review queues changed. Whilst the change is hopefully for the better in the long term. In, hopefully, the short term, [5] the release has a number of issues. [1]
There are a few I'd ...
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"I'm Done" option disabled
I tried to review this question, once I was done, I tried to click on I'm Done radio button, but I can't (it is disabled). I can only choose No action needed, but I decided to skip instead.
The last ...
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"Find out how review queues work" pop-up even after 1k reviews
I don't participate as often as I used to on this site. But I still have about 1k reviews on my account. So I was sort of surprised when I saw this pop-up today:
My questions are:
Is this a bug? Is ...
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Adding alternative answer comment to low quality posts queue
When I review posts in the low quality posts queue, sometimes I stumble upon answers which provide alternative solutions instead of reviewing the OP's code.
It would be nice to add this entry (...
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Why did I receive this moderator message?
I got a moderator message informing me that I've made some bad reviews.
However, I failed to see which ones they are pointing at.
Can you please show me? I've made 21 reviews in total.
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Are we voting to close too quickly?
With the kerfuffle on SE, I've decided to try & contribute a bit more again.
So I started with the vote close queue, and this one irked me:
https://codereview.stackexchange.com/review/close/...
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How to handle a VTC as duplicate that goes the wrong way around?
I encountered this review today, where a question was to be closed as duplicate of another, older question. However, the dupe target was closed, at -5 and unanswered. The quality was much lower than ...
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How should we handle edits to answers to make code congruent with the language of the question?
This is related to What are our answer editing guidelines?, but about an edit with a brief comment:
Switched to python.
To me that makes sense, since the code looked like a mix of python and a c-...
Sᴀᴍ OnᴇᴌᴀMod
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Flagging users who select "No Action Needed" in First Posts review queue
A while back I was directed to read the accepted community wiki answer to this First Post Review question (and of course heeded the advice).
In Jamal's answer to this question about reviewing a ...
Sᴀᴍ OnᴇᴌᴀMod
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PSA: Excel going "Not Responding" isn't broken code
Some VBA questions mention the host application (e.g. Excel) is going "not responding" while their macro is running.
Is it ok to vote to close these questions as "broken code"?
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Incorrect suggested edit review - how to educate users?
The scenario:
An asker posts a question.
A low rep user notices some improvements to the questions code, and edits them into the question.
The edit gets accepted in the review queues.
Another user ...
PeilonrayzMod
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First post appeared on the review queue long time after being asked
This question was asked 12 hours ago. But it just appeared a short moment ago on the review queue as a first post entry. How/why did this delay happen?
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Is there a way to accept a suggested, but rejected, edit?
Someone recently suggested an edit to one of my posts.
The suggested edit was rejected before I even saw it.
As the author of the post, I find the suggested edit correct, and I'd like to accept it ...
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What to do with Code Only Answer in Low Quality Queue
The only options currently are
Looks OK
Edit
Delete
Skip
But when you have a code only answer,
It isn't Okay
There isn't anything to edit really
Deleting a good start to a review seems like a bad idea
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Removing leading white space in question code blocks
I've made a couple of suggested edits to this question. The first one was rejected because it deviated from he original intent / it edited code. When I looked at the suggested edit, it did look like ...
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