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How to tell a user that his/her actions are inappropriate (and should I)
If you are of the opinion that a vote to close or a review or another action on one of your posts was inappropriate you can signal this to the moderators via a flag, chose "in need of moderator ...
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I don't understand this audit.
Just to get this question off the unasnwered list, here's the explanation (thanks to YuiTo Cheng, Xander Henderson, jgon and other commenters for the help). It turns out that the poster of the answers ...
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Why was this answer marked as "spam or offensive"?
I'd say the culprit is that last sentence:
This much anticipated second edition of the most successful calculus text published in the last two decades retains the best of the first edition while ...
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Review queue tests in need of revision?
Bad robo audits can be frustrating, but they don't really do much, apart from make you wish the robo auditor had a neck you could squeeze. The criteria for how it chooses the "right" choice is ...
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What happens if you fail the review audit several times in a row?
What happens if you fail the review audit several times in a row? Do you get suspended from reviewing?
When one fails enough review audits, the system issues an automatic review ban (of length ...
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Another failed review audit for low quality posts
No, you did right. That's not an answer in any way, and voting to delete it is the correct action.
The poor audit system was misled by the post having a score of +5. Since it doesn't know any ...
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Attention test for edits
You are not alone in getting a bit irritate by these tests, and the wording chosen by SE is typically to the more playful side, which does not go over well with everybody.
However, there is some ...
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Why was this answer marked as "spam or offensive"?
Because sometimes there is a bigger pattern that regular users don't see where certain websites, books, or otherwise commercial venues post their links here.
What might seem to you as a single post ...
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What review audit is this?
The point of an audit is to make you stop and think. Or to document that you're not doing that.
It made you stop and think. So it did its job just fine.
(I should note that failing an audit on ...
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Examples of poor review audits
This question post is a horrible "exemplar" of a post that should be reopened, according to a "reopen review queue audit."
In fact, the question should be put on hold, so the asker can improve it, ...
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Examples of poor review audits
Probability and expectancy problem
This is supposed to be a "reopen queue audit question" and to "pass" the audit, one is supposed to vote to reopen.
This is a problem statement question and ...
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A possible bug in the review test system
It looks like you're in the Low quality posts queue where I understand your concern but what postmortes said in the comments is correct. We're mostly checking for robo-reviewing - people just pushing ...
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Why should I review?
In principle the I understand button should not be pressed unless one has made an actual mistake. Mistakes can happen. They are rare, we are professionals. The opinion of a program is of no relevance.
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Examples of poor review audits
https://math.stackexchange.com/review/close/1076507
The entire question reads:
I have been stuck on this problem for hours and have absolutely no clue how to go about it. Any help would be amazing....
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Examples of poor review audits
https://math.stackexchange.com/review/close/1056774
The entire question reads:
Are there any necessary or sufficient condition for when in a general convex hexagon, the lines formed by joining the ...
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Mistake in this "First Question" Review marked spam?
On the SE network, "spam" is fairly narrowly defined: it is a question or answer which appears to promote a product or service without the author of the post declaring their association ...
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Examples of poor review audits
https://math.stackexchange.com/review/close/1015074
This question is a fairly straight-forward "problem statement question" that I voted to close as "Lacking Context." I think that the level of the ...
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Examples of poor review audits
Yesterday I failed this Review audit, and when I posted an answer in the Reopen/Undelete thread, another user reported failing two similar audits, and someone else later failed another one. That same ...
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Examples of poor review audits
Are there any properties of sup?
The question title is not informative, and suggests a very broad question (rather than the fairly focused question which is actually presented). The question itself ...
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Examples of poor review audits
https://math.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/1480735
As far as I can see, the question is not visible in the audit link. The question is
Prove this sequence converges to $1/2$
There is a ...
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Why should I review?
Why should I review?
Because it makes fun!
If it's not the case for you, then stop.
Audit reviews are sometimes helpful to understand rule and sometimes bothering... But as long as you review ...
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Examples of poor review audits
Though not a major one. I tried to edit the ${\boxed {tea+wine=s}}$ into ${\boxed {\text{tea+wine=s}}}$ and the one following -> (s-wine)...And I failed.
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Examples of poor review audits
I got this one:
https://math.stackexchange.com/review/close/1194064
I passed it by leaving it open, but it seems not nearly clear-cut enough to qualify as a good review audit. The asker has not ...
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Try to comment: Fail review audit
In some kinds of review queues (such as Review: Close Votes), attempting to leave a Comment results in an error message (on submission of the Comment, "An error occurred during comment submission."). ...
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Examples of poor review audits
https://math.stackexchange.com/review/close/1408914
The question is long but, at the end of the day, it is nothing more than a statement of a result which the asker wants proved. There is no ...
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Examples of poor review audits
https://math.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/1407444
Even if we accept that questions may be appropriately answered with hints (and the consensus seems to be that hint answers are okay in ...
Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible