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I pretty much gave up closing and close-vote reviewing during the recent Monica fiasco.
Although I totally agree that closing bad questions is the right thing to do, and although I think I can safely ...
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Canonical post in first post review, how to react?
To my understanding canonical questions are a ServerFault convention, of which the review-question selection algorithm is completely unaware.
Which is to say, it had to happen some time. Treat it ...
sysadmin1138Mod
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Delete reasons in the Low Quality Posts review queue are alternating
It depends on the reputation level of the person whose answer you're reviewing. If they have too low a reputation to be able to post comments, the first option will be used. If they have enough ...
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If you don't vote, the site will die
It's probably a lost cause to try to get people to vote more:
Most mature SE sites suffer from a lack of voting - I've seen comments about it on almost every one I'm somewhat active on. You seem to ...
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Why is this question off topic here?
Read the yellow box. OP doesn't tell us anything about his environment. It can be reopened when it is improved.
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I'm not against this change, but I don't know whether it'll do very much. I keep on top of the close votes review queue, to keep it under control, and it's pretty rare that I hit a question that has ...
wombleMod
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Some of you may have noticed the Meta Stack Exchange post - Testing three-vote close and reopen on 13 network sites (it's linked in the featured on meta sidebar) - we've finally got this project under ...
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The "closed" review queue is zero
There are currently 38 questions in the close queue. If you have already voted on or skipped them, they do not show for you.
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Veeery old review answer
This answer at Meta SE posits that this is OK:
This is, while unusual, an expected result of the system.
The way the late answers queue works is by checking two things.
Was the answer posted at ...
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Thanks everyone for the feedback !
As the feedback is nuanced in the answers provided; not a No, but more like a shy Yes, but the suggestion is kinda up-voted much. I asked a CM and it's a change ...
yagmoth555Mod
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Why is this question off topic here?
However the close reason is clear and just, it seems a bit odd to put this under "off topic". The question is just lacking details, but that would be more of an "unclear what you're asking" type of ...
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I agree with Ward, the community should be doing more of this but the fundamental problem has always been there aren't enough people voting to close.
I could be wrong about this but there seems to ...
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