How Stack Overflow’s Review Queues Keep Moderation Scalable
A concise look at the six review queues, their reputation gates, daily limits, audit mechanics, and aging rules, with a worked example of handling a Close Vote task.
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stackoverflowHow Stack Overflow's Review Queues Scale Moderation Without Central Oversight
Stack Overflow scales moderation by distributing specialized review queues to reputation‑gated users, using hidden audits and rate limits to keep quality high without central oversight. Learn how to audit the system yourself with a simple SEDE query.