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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First Post Review Queue — what is it? Why is it a bad idea to click "No Action Needed"?
When you pass 500 reputation you gain access to the Review Queues. One of them is the "First Post" queue.
What is this queue, what purpose does it serve, and how should I process items in that queue?
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Should you edit someone else's code in a question?
I have seen several (suggested) reviews lately, where someone edits the code in the original poster's question. Should such edits be allowed?
The edits in question are mostly minor. Some add spaces ...
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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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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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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 ...
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Is the automatic low quality answer comment unfit for Code Review?
This is the comment made on my behalf when I recommended deletion on an answer in the VLQ queue:
This does not provide an answer to the question. To critique or request clarification from an author, ...
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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 ...
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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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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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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-...
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Best action for reviewing a code-only answer
A bit of a situation for a review of this answer where I didn't know what the best action was. The answer has good intentions but could be improved by elaborating what the changes mean and why they ...
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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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Do we want to enable the review auditing feature that discourages robo-reviewing?
For all of you who don't know what review audits are, have a read of this stackexchange meta question: what-are-review-tests-audits-and-how-do-they-work
This question is related to these code review ...
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Why does the top bar say "3 total posts awaiting review" when there's only one?
When I mouse over the "3" it says "3 total posts awaiting review". I click on it... there's 1 post awaiting review. No other posts.
The "3" disappears if the review queue is empty, but it always ...
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