It looks like the user chose to improve that question (instead of approving/rejecting). There's a checkbox when improving the question, marking if the suggested edit was helpful or not.
Something to keep in mind: Sometimes, link edits are hidden from view. There's a "View the before and after post", then there's a "View the before and after post in Markdown format"
@ChrisForrence there aren't any unhandled mod flags in the system that are that old. "recommend closure" flags, perhaps. but those are the ones that do land in the close queue
Speaking of the close vote queue. We have knocked ~7k questions out of that thing since Monday (when the vote/flag threshold was raised to 3). That's pretty snazzy.
@AnnaLear - Yeah, they're all recommended closure flags, my unhandled ones. And I'm not too worried about them right now; because they wouldn't show up in the Close Vote queue yet (one that I found had no close votes on it, so the only hold it'd have on the CV queue is a flag)
@MichelAyres - Oh it was a thing of beauty. Or monstrosity. Semantics. There used to be 120,000 entries in that queue
Many many many MANY of the entries are being hidden from view (as @jadarnel27 mentioned, only entries with at least three close votes are being displayed)
But it breaks down the problem; it's very much a psychological thing.
Users are freaking out over the number of questions with close votes. More so when they look at the review queue and have to grab a newspaper to fan themselves as they do declare that the high number is giving them palpitations.
Currently that number represents all questions waiting for a pillo...
@JeroenVannevel "workarounds from other users" aren't always valid answers. In this case, the user answered his own question with something that didn't address the question, so it's really just adding context to the question itself. I think 0x7fffffff was right.
Well, how do you define 'original problem'? Should the question be seen as 'providing a fix for a fault in a certain approach to the problem at hand' or 'providing a solution to the problem at hand, ideally following the existing approach path'?
if it's the former then you're correct: it followed a different approach. But if it's the latter then this would be acceptable
I prefer answers that follow the given approach but sometimes you just don't find anything and you provide a workaround (like what happened here)
@Jeroen: OP is still looking for a fix to their original problem. If anything, having no answer listed gives them a bit more chance that someone will attempt to answer it. As for people with the same problem, well, the workaround is still available.
Borderline case, but I don't see a real problem here.
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This is a revisit of Are certain users favored the opportunity to review posts? that seems to have grown stale without any solid answer.
Just recently I was baffled by a user's ability to review a "First Post" almost 6 hours after it had been reviewed previously:
In my experience, certain rev...
@AnnaLear Hey! I just wanted to discuss the Code Golf Stack Exchange site, and about its general status.
@GraceNote Mind pinging me in Code Golf's chatroom? I want to discuss Code Golf, a site in a very similar situation. (Sorry, I really have no other way to get your attention ;)) — Doorknob2 days ago
@GraceNote Thank you very much! :D I feel our situation is in many ways similar, but it would be ideal to have some personalized information and advice.
This is a revisit of Are certain users favored the opportunity to review posts? that seems to have grown stale without any solid answer.
Just recently I was baffled by a user's ability to review a "First Post" almost 6 hours after it had been reviewed previously:
In my experience, certain rev...
