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Sudden spike in number of old late answers up for review
This is a network-wide change. See this Meta.SE question and this answer to it:
Queue growth
Review queues lose effectiveness if posts aren't regularly (and
accurately) cleared. A queue such ...
Thomas OwensMod
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How long should I expect to wait for a simple edit to be approved?
My experience with this community here is that sometimes you have to give them around a week or two to react. There are only a handful of members who actively participate in improving things like ...
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Standard for link updates
You should spend as much time as you feel comfortable reviewing to review. No one is watching the time you spend or making sure you spend enough time or do enough reviews. If you're going to review ...
Thomas OwensMod
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Please remove this question from my "failed review" list
I am not a moderator, but if I am correctly informed, moderators don't have the power to change your "failed review counter", which is managed by some automatisms of the site.
However, I ...
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Is it OK to add code samples in an edit
In general, moderation should not require technical knowledge of the subject matter.
A code change is almost always a change in the poster's intent, and reviewers shouldn't have to know anything ...
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Rejected edit accidentally - Can we revoke the rejection we made?
I looked at it. Rejection seems appropriate in this case - the edits are extremely minor and do not significantly improve the post. One of the edits even added "emphasized text", which is the helper ...
Thomas OwensMod
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Sizable review queues with no one hitting them?
I can't speak for all the users with review queue access, but I can point out a few reasons why I never use these review queues:
The suggested edits review queue seems to be the only one that ever ...
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Please remove this question from my "failed review" list
Rather than worry about a meaningless stat might I suggest that if the difference between "primary" and "secondary" buttons was clear to you then an edit to make it clear to the ...
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Is it OK to add code samples in an edit
I think for such cases it is a good idea to ask the original author if the code example matches his intent and let him make the decision. For the particular case, it seems the editor actually did that,...
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Is there a plan to test Triage review at Programmers?
As explained in this answer to related question at MSE, there is no such plan.
More specifically, Triage review was not intended to be applicable network wide; it was designed based on assumptions ...
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