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The activity tab on some frequent reviewers' profiles suggests that they've hit the No Action Needed button for every review task for at least the past 2 months.

Such behaviour is harmful to the site. Many of these questions and answers really need flags or edits. If you're going to review, please do it properly!

Should we add better instructions?

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For what it is worth, I've frequently found that for the review UI that displays "No Action Needed," I often find that there is an action needed, just not one the UI lets me take. – Josh Petrie Feb 12 at 15:55
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@JoshPetrie Can you give us a few examples, perhaps as an answer on this post? We're still monitoring the review queues and making changes as needed to make them better. – Anna Lear♦ Feb 13 at 1:59
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Hard to say since I can't look at the review UI for empty queues; when I see something in one of the queues I'll let you know. However, the general idea is this: in the close vote queue, I can't vote up or down on questions or answers. Sometimes that's the the kind of action I want to take on other review queues, but I can't, so I choose "no action needed" and go issue the vote normally. – Josh Petrie Feb 13 at 16:33
@Josh You can see your (and others') recent reviews at (profile page) -> activity -> reviews. – Anko Feb 13 at 16:39
@Anko, yes, but that only shows me the historical UI, not the UI that appears when you actually have to review a question. – Josh Petrie Feb 13 at 16:44
@AnnaLear One problem I've encountered sometimes it when you are reviewing a spam question: there's no "flag a spam button": you have to open the question in a new tab and flag it from there. Review only allows you to close or edit it IIRC. – Lohoris Mar 12 at 17:02
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I think some reviewers are too zealous with their rejections on GDSE; i.e. they reject fixes to question titles or small formatting improvements, which would usually get approved on SO. As a result overall quality of latest list is much worse. It's not a huge issue, because all the important topics get more attention anyway, but it's still a bit sad. – Mike Trusov May 3 at 4:22
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@JoshPetrie That page talks about edits which change a single word thus bumping old or closed threads, which I agree are pointless; however rephrasing recent questions so their titles make more sense and actually correspond to the questions' content is pretty useful from my point of view. Anyway, that area is really gray... and the ideal solution would be the 'minor edit' feature suggested by Trevor Powell in one of the comments on that thread. – Mike Trusov May 14 at 22:18
@MikeTrusov Not disagreeing, just pointing it out, – Josh Petrie May 15 at 3:05

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