<p>[Edit: It looks like the queues seem to have improved a little in recent times -- I find it easier to figure out why something closed for example -- so to an extent some of the gripes here may be a little out of date.]</p>

<p>I definitely agree that the interface in the various review queues is not as helpful as it should be -- it hides essential information that you then need to go elsewhere to find. </p>

<p>For example, trying to assess a "reopen" review - what's the first, most critical thing you need to know? <em>Why it was closed in the first place</em> -- but it's not on the screen! In the interface it takes fiddling around to get it - it's usually actually quicker to open the original in a new tab. That sort of thing makes me wonder if the person designing that interface actually does reviews. Other review queues have similar problems.</p>

<p>When doing various reviews I often pop up several additional tabs to get all the information I want to judge a review - most of which really ought to be readily available in the review screen I think, either directly or via links.</p>

<p>I'd usually recommend doing your final review actions (such as voting to close or whatever) in the review screen, so you at least get credit toward the badges, but the rewards-per-effort are pretty pathetic compared to other badges (250 reviews for a silver badge? much wow; compare that to a Constituent badge. "Yay, I clicked, gimme a silver badge.").</p>

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<p>On the "Stock comments", some kinds of comments are generated in the process of voting to close (perhaps in some cases only if doing it on the post itself rather than in the review queue, I'd have to look through everything to be sure) - instead of appearing in a blue box, a standard comment will appear under the name of the person who voted by selecting some option in a dialog.</p>

<p>Some other comments are just pasted or typed. For example, I recently gave something like this comment:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>Your question appears to be routine bookwork. Please add the <code>self-study</code> tag and read its <a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/tags/self-study/info">tag wiki</a>, modifying your question to follow the guidelines where necessary.</p>
</blockquote>

<p>I do a lot of comments like that, but for me they're usually just typed from scratch every time. </p>

<p>Gung has some stock comments, but to me they usually seem to be the same each time, so I expect he's pasting them. I did seriously consider setting some script up to autogenerate the regular ones for me but I've never gotten around to trying to do that.</p>
