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Please remove this question from my "failed review" list

As I'm into reviewing some questions, the following appeared, which looks like "I want to design some software, and I would like to use some buttons in the GUI. I have two ideas but I don't know ...
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How long should I expect to wait for a simple edit to be approved?

Two weeks ago, I proposed a minor edit to fix spelling and grammar problems with an answer. On most SE sites, that would have been reviewed within a couple of hours, but here, it's been waiting for ...
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Rejected edit accidentally - Can we revoke the rejection we made?

I was reviewing the edits suggested by @InnovaITveSolutions to this question how-to-prevent-dependency-injection-from-killing-object-oriented-programming and accidentally voted to reject it. (...
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Standard for link updates

I get a lot of changes in my review queue that are simply updates to links in posts. While most of them are likely legitimate, I suppose I should be checking that the changes are needed and actually ...
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Is it OK to add code samples in an edit

I have an review in my queue where the only change was to add a block of code as an example. My initial reaction was to reject it but none of the rejection reasons seemed appropriate. In general, is ...
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Sudden spike in number of old late answers up for review

There's been a sudden, massive spike in the number of posts in the Late Answers review queue: Seems like there's usually only a handful per day, certainly not 300. Most of these answers seem to have ...
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Grant more close votes for close reviewers

Based upon a recent answer1, 2 to a previous question of mine, I'd like to re-visit an older request. Please give all close voters3 on Programmers 50 votes instead of the standard 244. Why? All of ...
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Could we please detect troublesome questions using Stack Overflow data and offload them to Triage review for an hour or two?

Propose to detect troublesome questions using Stack Overflow quality scoring data and put them to Triage queue for an hour or two. If the timeout expires before decision is made, let questions go to ...
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Sizable review queues with no one hitting them?

Just now I was idly checking my helpful flags count (a habit I got into on SO, where it's frankly far more interesting than my stats here) and noticed that I had a flag pending that was over 24 hours ...
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Is there a plan to test Triage review at Programmers?

Triage review is being tested at Stack Overflow for about three weeks now. I briefly "triaged" it myself and as far as I can tell, Programmers can benefit from such a review too. Is there a plan to ...
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Deleted question as a known good audit in close vote review?

Hitting the close vote reviews, I came across this one. I'm really not sure what the proper action on it is. It's been deleted. I'm not sure if I should leave it open (it's deleted), close it (...
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I shouldn't be review audited on my own posts

Was given a post to review I made myself about 2 weeks ago. Was "only a test" but I wonder if that's not something that should be filtered out...
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Reopen review queue shows the edit made over two years ago?

I just performed a review in the reopen queue on a post that appears to have entered the queue due to an edit. So far, nothing unusual. The unusual thing is that the edit was made over two years ago. ...
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Failed Close Vote Review

I failed a review audit for Cleanest way to report errors in Haskell. I responded by voting to close it as "primarily opinion based." I understand that answering an occasional review incorrectly will ...
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Nav buttons floating over review dialog box [duplicate]

I was in the LQP review queue this morning and clicked the 'recommend deletion' dialog box. I dragged the dialog box away to look again at the question and noticed this: The nav buttons are floating ...
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UI Bug During Review [duplicate]

(all annotations in red are mine) While reviewing, a random black bar appears across the question that I'm viewing. This appears on every post I review, only in the Close Votes category. Anyone ...
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Looking for guidance on using "No Action Needed" in the first posts review queue

Following the post from Yannis Rizos about the use of "No Action Needed" for posts that are not all that good (Reviewing first posts from new users), I am struggling to understand when to use "No ...
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Reviewing first posts from new users

I took a quick look at the review history in our first posts review queue and I've noticed some "No Action Needed" reviews that I didn't agree with. That's not a problem, I don't expect anyone to ...
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Bottom bar floating in middle of the page

The bottom bar (that black almost a straight line thing) is floating in the middle of the page on reviews. This may be a regression of: Footer line floats up too high in the main review page Line in ...
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Top bar shows large number of suggested edits, but the review queue is empty

When logging in today, I saw a notification that there were 31 suggested edits to be reviewed (which is an unusually large number), but when going to the review page, the queue was empty. Even after ...
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I just failed an audit, but I was right and it was wrong. What now?

I just failed an audit on this question: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/review/first-posts/60664. This was submitted as a first post from a new user, but that's wrong. I remember this ...
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10k flag handling gone and what you can do about it

With Let's get rid of the 10K flag queue (MSE), the ability for 10k users to see flags (particularly not an answer and very low quality) is gone. This means that the little blue box for notifying a ...
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Pop up for Low Quality comment options behind links

The popup for the 'leave a comment' is showing up behind the links at the top of the page: All of the following screen shots are from a mac. Original report in Safari: Fresh install of Firefox: ...
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How to get more people doing reviews?

We're nowhere near the point of Stack Overflow with (at the time of this writing) 65.9k questions in the close queue. I've noticed an uptick in the queue of people flagging questions. In a batch of ...
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Edit form duplicates when editing a reviewed post

Recently I reviewed some first posts. One post's formatting was pretty bad, so I choose "Edit", to improve it. On Stackoverflow I do not have to add a summary, because I've got enought reputation. ...
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Footer lines inconveniently positioned when editing from the first posts review queue

The footer line is misbehaving again and overlapping the edit preview when editing a post from the "First Posts" review queue (possibly others?) This is from Chrome 28 on Linux: This from ...
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Where to ask for advice regarding a review audit?

I have reviewed a question and I wanted to vote to close the question because to me it seems like a polling question on a very subjective topic. To my surprise, the system told me STOP! Look and ...
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Review mode, attention check: how do I see other votes to close?

Sequence of events: I review votes to close. I see a question. It looks fine. Why is it here? I press "Close" to see if there's a proposed 'exact duplicate' in other close votes. "We were checking if ...
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Is something wrong with the review queues?

Thorsten Müller was presented with an odd review question. Odd, because the question was deleted on April 13, but he was asked today to review the first-post-answer in the deleted question. ...
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Downvoting "marginal" posts can trigger their inclusion into Low Quality queue?

Recently I reviewed some posts using SEDE query called "Marginal short answers with links". For the record, I have been using query parameters as suggested here, with the only difference ...
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Indicate when there is something to review

I find myself going to the review section quite often, but most of the time, there is nothing to review. It would be cool if there was some kind of indication that there are elements to review instead ...
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Line in UI goes under review tasks [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Footer line floats up too high in the main review page See the screenshot below. I don't know whether this is because I only have 249 rep, but it's there, all right. Note: I ...
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Should flagged low quality posts that are "wrong" be recommended for deletion?

I've been fairly active in the new review queue this week and have found a particular breed of low quality posts that I'm not sure of how to handle. For example, this answer in Most useful features ...
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Footer line floats up too high in the main review page

I'm seeing this on Chromium 22 (Windows & Linux) & Firefox 15 (Windows): The footer line is a bit in the way. Tried the usual clearing of caches/hard refresh but that doesn't seem to help....
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Footer line isn't where it's supposed to be in review stats and history

This is how the stats for the low quality posts queue looks like: Same thing happens in the history tab, for example check out the first posts history. Just in case this is browser specific, I'm on ...
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Mod dialog in review doesn't show up properly (and a bonus feature request)

Let's start with the feature request. When reviewing answers we have two mod links, when reviewing questions we only have the one. Having the mod link under the post feels a bit more natural, as ...
yannis's user avatar
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Locked posts shouldn't show up for review

This post came up while using the new "Review Low Quality Posts" tool, but it wouldn't let me vote because the post is locked. If you can't vote on it, it shouldn't pop up for review in the first ...
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Review page doesn't indicate already voted posts

Posts I've already voted on through normal browsing of the site, are not marked as such (red arrow) in the review page. It's more of an annoyance than a bug, if I try to vote again I get the "already ...
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