The first question and first answer review queues also show discussions posts and answers - I find this odd since most of the quality metrics for Q&A don't seem to apply, given replies "join the conversation" rather than answering the question and the questions themselves have entirely different goals. Also, since you can't downvote posts, the "thumbs down" button that doesn't actually do anything also doesn't count as "other action" for reviewing. Should they even be included in this queue at all?
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14Follow-up question: should Stack Overflow include opinion-based questions and answers? (The answer is as obvious as the question.)Andras Deak -- Слава Україні– Andras Deak -- Слава Україні2025-11-12 21:57:17 +00:00Commented Nov 12, 2025 at 21:57
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1It looks like they shouldn't be in stackoverflow at all. They should be their own separate entity. Like special substack or something.talex– talex2025-11-13 06:38:21 +00:00Commented Nov 13, 2025 at 6:38
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3Review what? There are no rules for opinion-based questions per design. It isn't possible to review if something fulfills x, when x does not exist.Lundin– Lundin2025-11-14 11:46:43 +00:00Commented Nov 14, 2025 at 11:46
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2You can, however, leave boilerplate comments, even if they aren't visible publicly. :-/Dan Getz– Dan Getz2025-11-16 15:33:39 +00:00Commented Nov 16, 2025 at 15:33
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No, I don't believe they should. The review queue doesn't really make it clear that these aren't traditional Q&A posts either, which is causing people to then raise "Not an answer" flags against the "answer" (because, for example, they look like comments), which then likely results in it going to the low quality review queue and it enters the mod queues as well; neither of which is desirable.
At the moment, my opinion is that the posts shouldn't be included in any of the curation tools that exist, and they have no curation workflow; there's no closure or migration options. Not an answer flags only really count if the post is entirely off-topic. Of course spam and R&A flags are applicable. If curation of these posts is needed (it is), then that should be its own workflows (or at least should be with the current iteration, as they don't fit the current ones).
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5How can these opinions be included in the queue, since they cannot be voted to be deleted by the community or downvoted, making marking them as unacceptable essentially impossible and pointless.Security Hound– Security Hound2025-11-12 18:03:00 +00:00Commented Nov 12, 2025 at 18:03
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@SecurityHound Ah I missed the delete votes not being a thing either - Yeah with no real curation tools then why are they in the curation queue at all?Marsroverr– Marsroverr2025-11-12 18:06:45 +00:00Commented Nov 12, 2025 at 18:06
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9@Marsroverr - I hope this experiment fails, because the opinions that I have seen, hasn’t been the greatest contentSecurity Hound– Security Hound2025-11-12 18:08:21 +00:00Commented Nov 12, 2025 at 18:08
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1@SecurityHound I agree - I haven't seen any good actual opinion-based questions and have only really seen a lot of very low quality Q&A type questionsMarsroverr– Marsroverr2025-11-12 18:09:59 +00:00Commented Nov 12, 2025 at 18:09
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12@SecurityHound By Stack Overflow standards the experiment failed unrecoverably since day one, as was obvious before it even started. But that's not what it's about; it serves to find out what to change to a site that's designed to not support low quality content, regardless. From the blog: "... we’re also actively experimenting with ... to reflect our new mission: to support ALL the builders of the future in an AI world ...". By those metrics the experiment simply can't fail. The company insists on digging its own grave.user4157124– user41571242025-11-13 00:21:03 +00:00Commented Nov 13, 2025 at 0:21