On any SE site, in the First Posts review queue we review new user's posts. As with any queue, we can get the Custodian, Reviewer, and Steward badges for reviewing a certain number of items in this queue.  However, most of the time, especially when using smaller SE sites, I comment, vote on, flag, or vote to close a new user's post before going through the First Posts review queue. I am then unable to review this post in the First Posts review queue because I've already interacted with it.  Given we're fulfilling the purpose of the review queue by interacting with the new user's post on the Q&amp;A, I think interacting with new user's posts on the Q&amp;A should count towards the reviewing badges.  This would help improve the quality of the site in general because users will be further encouraged to upvote, comment, and help new users while on the Q&amp;A portion more than they currently do.
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The recent changes to /review has gotten everyone interested in cleaning up the muck. At present, only posts "reviewed" (by clicking on the review link) and actions taken (up/down/close/edit/flag) from within /review count towards the badge.   However, it is entirely possible that one catches a poor question outside of /review (e.g., on the front page/tag page, etc.) and "reviews" it and takes some action on it. However, these actions do not count for the badge, at present. In all likelihood, this question would've also been in the /review queue and if one were fortuitous enough to have reviewed it there, these actions would've counted towards the badge.   Would it be possible to include reviews made outside of /review to count if the question was also in the review queue? Note that this shouldn't apply if the question dropped out of the queue (either by inaction or after it was edited and improved by previous reviews).
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Normally new users are not allowed to up-vote until they gain a bit of reputation by receiving up-votes or accepts from the community of a site.  But this has a weak point that is being exploited:     A number of new users post, answer, and accept each others'    off-topic questions before we can close them (in less than 5 min).    Accepting each others' answers gains them enough reputation to    start up-vote each others' posts.   We are closing them and the moderators clean up afterwards but  this keeps happening over and over again and becoming frustrating  to the extent that I think a systematic solution might be required. Is there a system to prevent this kind of circumvention of  the reputation requirements using accepts by new users?  One possible solution might be to change the system so accepts from users who do not have enough reputation to up-vote  do not give any reputation (at least until the answer gets an up-vote).
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On the Stack Overflow help center article about review queues, , it says on the bottom:  Note: These two queues do not exist on Meta sites.  But there are Late Answer and First Posts review queues on Meta Stack Overflow, as far as the  says. So shouldn't that last sentence be removed?
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The Public Platform team is continuing to work towards  and we’re here today to announce a new onboarding experience for the review queues. In the  (), we learned that each queues’ instructions could be easily misinterpreted and additional information was difficult to find. Without proper guidance or context, new reviewers would contribute inconsistent reviews and risk having their review privileges suspended. With this release, our goals were to 1) better highlight the review privilege and 2) provide upfront instruction and guidance for successful reviewing. New privilege announcements Community moderation is a significant aspect of Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange sites. We want users to be aware and familiar with this newly earned privilege, but also celebrate the opportunity to contribute to the community in a unique way.  Many users were discovering the review queues by chance. Once the privilege is earned, a new review queue icon with a red alert would appear in the top-right part of the navigation. We are adding a popover to bring more attention to this easy-to-miss icon. We will also be adding notices for when users earn access to other, higher reputation queues. Additionally, new reviewers will also receive an email notification about the newly earned privilege. They will only get the email if they earn the privilege and don't perform a review within 24 hours (anyone who doesn't want to receive email notifications like this can visit their  and turn off &quot;Tips and Reminders&quot;). We are also showing a popover to users who earned access to review queues in the past, but have never done a review or haven't reviewed in the last 30 days. This popover is only appearing for the next 90 days. The goal is to engage users who may not have interacted with the queues since we made  and . Welcome banner  If a reviewer clicks “Learn more” on the on-page popover or goes to the review queue home page (/review), they’ll be greeted with an onboarding message with general information about the review queues. Informational modals  Queue-specific modals will appear upon page load as you visit each queue. They summarize and highlight important aspects and tips about reviewing in a particular queue. This information can be revisited at any time by clicking “Learn more” under the page header. Feedback As always, please leave your feedback and any bugs you may discover related to this release below this post. We will be monitoring this post for the next few weeks (May 4, 2021). After May 4th, please report any further issues as new questions.
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I just reviewed 20 items in the close vote queue and got the message     Thank you for reviewing 20 close votes today; come back in 15 hours to continue reviewing.   Normally this is 40 items but .  Can this restriction be removed for Stack Overflow or better the actual queue size be considered since the queue actually contains more items than being displayed?
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Very funny: on the stats page for 'suggested edits', it says there is 1 user with 1 review so far today. However, the counter for 'reviews today' says there are 11. Similar issues exist in other review queues of other Stack Exchange sites, e.g. for first posts. . Checkout these stats to see it at work.  I would not be surprised if the counter has not been reset last night at the start of a new day ... smells like a bug (or yet another undocumented feature ...).
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I usually review the  flagged posts list, which is the one with the most pending flags by the way (most of the time around 100 flags?). It is a great way to comfortably handle those posts and contribute to the site, but it has a couple of issues that keep me from using them as much as I'd like to:  I usually flag clearly-not-an-answer posts, and just skip the ones in tags I don't have enough knowledge about, or the ones I'm not sure about how to proceed with (I'm not certain enough to flag as invalid most of the flags). This means that when I request the next page of 50 flagged posts, I see many of the posts I just skipped.   The page shows 50 posts in random order. I understand this is intentional and aimed to avoid focusing handling of the flags on specific posts based on some ordering criteria. But when we're done scrolling through the 50 posts on the list, we can only get 50 more flagged posts (), and what is worse, having repeated posts all over.  This is disencouraging me from keeping reviewing flags once I've gone through the first page of the list.  Could the Showing 50 random posts;  link avoid showing posts already shown on the current post list?  Or could we have a "Skip" option (similar to the ones on the review queues) on the flagged posts in the list, just to indicate we're not sure about them and don't want them to appear again?
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When I'm checking the review queues as a moderator - particularly the Low Quality Posts queue - I'm presented with an extra link beside the question mod. This gives me access to the moderator tools which include the "convert to comment option".  A valid option for some low quality answers is the option to convert them to a comment on the question. However, selecting the mod tools and that option    Doesn't count towards my review total.   Now I know it's not much in the scheme of things, but I have reviewed that question. The only workaround I have is to   Open the page in a new tab Use the delete button to increment the review count. Switch to the other tab Undelete the answer Use the mod tools to convert it to a comment.   Needless to say I'm not doing this as life's just too short, but it does annoy me that I'm not getting any closer to the Reviewer or Steward badge in that queue.
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Kind of feel silly asking this but...I like reviewing, it's fun. At the time of this post I've reviewed 297 First Posts, but only 30 Late Answers, primarily because Late Answers appear less often. This got me thinking:  How old does a question have to be, for an answer by a new user to be considered late?  The Reviewer badge has been awarded 3720 at the times of this post. It would be interesting to see a breakdown of the total for the different types.  Ps. Sorry if this is a duplicate, I did look before I posted. If this information is available, I'm not aware of it, please share.
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I was reviewing on , and I faced a weird thing. I can review "Close Votes", "Low Quality Posts", and "Suggested Edits" if I reached my daily vote limit, but I can't for "First Posts" and "Late Answers". Why?    If they just deserve an upvote/downvote then they should not include in the review system. But if we can improve them through leaving comments and by editing the posts then why can't we access them?
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On the one hand, I see very few posts in the review queue when I visit.  On the other hand, I see a lot of pretty awful first posts sitting on the front page.  This leads me to suspect that robo-reviewers are blowing through the queue.  Given how empty the queue is, could you please increase the number of people who have to check in before a post leaves the queue?  Of course, some honey-pot solution to detect and disable the auto-clickers would be even better.
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With reference to the question , when reviewing in SO, we have to refresh the page every now and then to view the newly added entries to the review queue.  However, votes and reputation are updated on the display as soon as a vote is cast, and as soon as reputation changes. Is it possible to integrate this kind of feature to see the number of pending entries in the review queues page.  This request is probably not a duplicate of , where the feature is requested for a counter in front of the title of the page. But, my question adresses the .
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I just flagged two comments during a review of a question in the First Posts queue (on another SE site). Then I wanted to select the button I'm Done, but it's unavailable (I can only select No action needed). Even if I refresh my page (while still on that review page), it remains the same.  If however I also downvote the question (only temporary, as a test, since I don't want to downvote the question being reviewed), then it seems to work as I'd expect it to: the button I'm Done becomes available, and No action needed becomes unavailable.  Why is the I'm Done button unavailable after only flagging comments in the First Posts review queue?  Notes:   I'm not convinced that you're supposed to review the actual post, and not (only) the comments underneath it (as mentioned in 's comment). Because "if" I would post a new comment, or just upvote an existing comment, I can actually select I'm Done. While in this case I flagged existing comments which IMO had become obsolete. Flagging comments is "acting on comments". And if my flag gets accepted (in this case: "no longer needed"), and the comment is actually deleted (by the mod), then it makes the question a bit more readable (= don't waste your time digesting a comment which is obsolete). Therefor "IMO", in the end I also "acted on the post". Think about all those posts with a zillion of comments, of which many are obsolete (e.g because the post got updated already). I am not sure (yet) if a similar issue exist in any other review queue (i.e. the Late Answers queue).
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The other day, I got an obviously good question in a Close Vote Review.  Even if I didn't read the question,  is a bit of a giveaway.  Today I got one where   Also, on sites other than SO (where I understand the queues are huge), the number of reviews needed is often low enough (single digits) that you usually notice when you get an extra one.  I don't mind - I'm quite happy to get easy-to-pass audits - but maybe they could be a little harder...
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For your continued efforts in reviewing posts, even though the system sometimes messes up and doesn't let you actually review things and keeps displaying them over and over and over. So also, for your patience in putting up with the glitches in the review panel too! Haha  Anyways, a gold reviewer badge: 20000 reviews, over 4000 actioned  I just multiplied both numbers by 20. Think those numbers seem challenging? Is anyone up near those numbers or should it be multiplied by 10 instead? I prefer the higher amount because it would be gold and something harder to work for. :) But we also have to consider the longevity of when all these posts are eventually reviewed and it's only new posts being created.  Anyways, my stats for those who are interested (I wouldn't get the badge to start because I only have ~2000 actioned):  Upvoted            189 Downvoted          11 Edited             926 Commented          127 Voted to Close     44 Flagged            447 Reviewed           21609   As far as the name of the badge, I really like "The Owl is Watching" but not sure if that would be too long. Sounds snazzy though. Ideas?    Personally, I was on a quest to try and clear out all the posts in a single tab before it started showing me the same things over and over (and over) and then it got frustrating because I wasn't even making progress. Quest denied. :(    Lately I've noticed a massive build-up of unreviewed posts. When the review panel was first implemented, there would only ever be maybe 50 unreviewed posts at a time (in a given tab) for my monthly view. Now I log in and there's a thousand or two thousand pending. I think a lot of people quit reviewing after the first badge, so having a gold badge with a high threshold would really improve activity in the review panel and keep people going to improve the community.
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I've just been awarded the  bage!  Whooo, go me (didn't even realise it existed)!  =D I'm curious to know which of my (all rather mundane) comments has brought for me such honour. I found , which suggests using .  However, that query shows that I have only 2 comments with a score of 5 or more and I can't see anything wrong with the query... Do I not deserve this shiny new badge?  :(
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This is brought up by a chat discussion on .  The idea being, when you Vote to Close a question (and it subsequently get's closed), you get a notification when the first Vote to Reopen is cast.  This comes up because many users (on all sites) tend to downvote a question when they VTC it, and sometimes those downvotes stick (especially on high-traffic sites like SO). It would be nice if those who VTC'd (and possibly those who downvoted) get a notification informing them that the question is now in the Reopen Queue (or, perhaps just as well, on the first edit made to it by the OP).  Obviously it would be annoying if you got a notification on each edit, or each VTR, but it could fairly simple (I assume) be done so that you only get a notification on the first of either that happens.  This could have the effect of making the user feel more welcome again, as the user immediately gets more exposure when the question is opened again, and they start getting either the DV's reduced, or those DV's turned into UV's.