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Why is there suddenly a flood of Close votes in the review queue?
Possibly because there's a hat you can earn for being involved in the closing of questions:
Ooh, Shiny
Expect the queue to settle down once people have won the hat or when Winterbash is over for ...
ChrisFMod
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Why are there suddenly hundreds of posts in the "Late Answers" review queue?
It seems to be because this has been implemented:
Can we raise the bar for reputation for late answers to enter the review queue?
Essentially, the definition of "new user" for that queue has been ...
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Is there any issue with Steward badge?
This is not a bug; it's part of an update to the review queues. You now get one Steward badge for every 1,000 reviews in a single queue. For more details, see Steward badge can now be awarded multiple ...
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Please help reviewing suggested edits!
The issue is now fixed thanks to the reviewers. I believe we should increase the default edit queue size as currently it is only 40 as it's not respectful toward the edit authors to discard their ...
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Feedback request - What are your thoughts on three-vote closure?
Did this help?
I'd like to see some numbers on the actual number of questions that were closed by the community alone, but I know it's significantly higher than it was for 5 close votes (I can likely ...
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Is it possible to undo the approval on suggested edit?
I've rejected the edit.
As it takes two people to approve (or reject) an edit then the danger of an accidental misclick is somewhat reduced.
The only things you can really do to prevent the edit ...
ChrisFMod
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Is it OK to revise an answer by adding answerer's social/professional profile without his/her consent?
Definitely not okay in my book to post a person's potentially private LinkedIn profile with first and last name, even if it was in the edit message.
Aside from that, the answers were old and there ...
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How to review this "low quality" answer?
Edit should be used mostly to fix "small" problems like markdown, spelling, grammar, terminology, among other "small" issues but not to fix major content problems like a missing ...
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Is it OK to revise an answer by adding answerer's social/professional profile without his/her consent?
I've edited those posts per this policy in the Help Center:
How to not be a spammer
The community here tends to vote down overt self-promotion and flag it as spam. Post good, relevant answers, ...
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Is the Review notification (a white number on a brown background) working "the right way around"?
Yes, it's working correctly. Or, at least, as designed.
I'd need to go dig it up, but there have been many questions about the review count notification and people clicking it and not finding ...
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Feedback request - What are your thoughts on three-vote closure?
My first thoughts is that three is the right number and it should be permanent, but I really don't know if this helped / hurt.
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