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There is a "question is of very low quality" link on the right of the "Help and Improvement" review queue.

Why is it there, and not with the buttons (edit/skip) ?

When I am in a review queue, and I'm not sure of the action, I often open the help section to help me decide.
But since this button's action is not in the help section of the queue, I'm not sure when I should click it. Sometimes it's obvious I should click it, but not always.

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It's not a review action, so it doesn't count toward the queue limit. This is both good and bad; on the one hand, you can take care of more in a day (assuming you can manage more!), but on the other, of course, it doesn't count toward those precious precious badges.

You use this link whenever a question really needs to go back to Triage because no one in H&I can fix it. (Technically this is also true if it's already fine, although that's kind of a weird corner case and not something to rely on much.)

I'm not sure anyone knows exactly why it's not a review action, but I assume it has something to do with the fact that it kicks stuff back to the originating queue.

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    In any case, couldn't there be some kind of help for this action ? Commented Jun 4, 2015 at 7:49
  • @cosmo0: Sure, but there's not all that much more to say. Commented Jun 4, 2015 at 14:37
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    The help pops up in the form of a confirmation dialog when you click it, @cosmo0. Note that while Nathan describes the typical behavior here, that is (always) subject to change - you should do as the link suggests, and use it upon encountering a question that is of very low quality. Commented Jun 4, 2015 at 20:06
  • It looks like it doesn't just move it back to triage, but actually flags it as VLQ. Commented Jan 2, 2017 at 7:38
  • @BenjaminW.: Of course. What do you think happens when a question is flagged as VLQ? (It goes into Triage.) Commented Jan 2, 2017 at 7:38
  • I mean, yes, I understand that that's how it works and I've seen this - but intuitively, when I flag something as VLQ, I'd think it'd go into the VLQ queue. Commented Jan 2, 2017 at 7:43
  • @BenjaminW.: Point is, this is not behavior that's dependent on H&I. All questions flagged VLQ will go into Triage on SO, or else nowhere. No question will ever be put into LQP except as an audit. So I feel comfortable describing only the end state that's a natural result of general processes that are documented elsewhere. Commented Jan 2, 2017 at 7:51

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