Close vote review queue: let me see the answers on a review question

Question

I have a minor annoyance/inconsistency with the close vote review queue.

Suppose I’m looking at a question which has been flagged as a duplicate of another question.

• On the flagged question, I can only see the number of answers/whether there’s an accepted answer. I can‘t see the answers themselves.
• On the duplicate question, I can see both the number of answers/whether there’s an accepted answer and the answers themselves.

It would be nice if I could see the existing answers on the question I’m about to review, not just related questions.

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Why do I want this?

Particularly when I’m reviewing Story ID questions which have been marked as dupe, I wanted to check the answers on both of them for an OP confirmation that it’s the same story. (Probably unnecessary if it’s already got CVs, but I like to be thorough.)

Right now, I have to click through to the original question, but I can immediately see the answers on the dupe target. That’s mildly annoying. It would be a little easier if the answers on the review question were immediately accessible. #firstworldproblems

It would be sufficient if this just occurred on questions with dupe votes, but it’s probably easier and no less arduous to enable it for all close vote questions. But this is a very low priority request – the annoyance is minor at best. But hey, if you don’t ask, etc? :-)

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Answer 1

This is apparently such a popular request, that someone has written a client-side script to implement it.

From an answer to this existing meta question:

Update: Stack Overflow Unofficial Patch v1.10 now contains a client-side implementation of this feature. It works by detecting the presence of un-displayed answers (based on the summary table) and loading them via AJAX instead. There's some kluginess involved in reformatting the answer wrapper elements to fit the review page format, but overall it seems to work nice and smoothly.

Answer 2

Why not just click through to the actual Q&A? And then go back to the review screen.

I do the most close and re-open reviewing here and on Serverfault and on both sites I regularly click on the question link so that I can look at all the comments, any answers, etc. It's an easy way to get a better picture of what's good or bad about a question.

And although I'm not going to go looking now for the relevant meta.SE posts, it's been clearly stated by SE staff that it's not just allowed to do this, it's almost the definition of careful reviewing if you do it. You don't have to do it, it's not always necessary, but it's totally fine if you do.