Why do posts from people with >50k reputation show up in the Low Quality queue?
Would it not make sense to have a filter where answers from users with more than $arbitrary_high_number reputation do not appear in that queue?
For example, I just had to review this answer; the risk of one of Stéphane's answers failing to meet the standards expected here is vanishingly small, it it exists at all...
They show up there purely due to their length (being too short). His answers are often just code with no explanations, so they often fall into this category, and I regularly have to approve them as OK too.
I agree that it seems ridiculous, but I'm not sure how well received making a change to that automated audit will be. We can ask the higher ups to see what they have to say about it as well.
So the preliminary read on this is as I had imagined it. Other mods and SE staff are chiming in saying that being high rep doesn't make one exempt to producing crap A's, so the VLQ audit is unlikely to change. We can pursuit it further, but I don't see this mindset changing with any amount of discussions or time.
Whenever you are in the Low Quality Review Queue, you are evaluating the quality of the post, not of the user. If the post needs improvements and you can improve it, please do so. If only the author can do those improvements, you should comment asking for elaboration and select recommend deletion. If you are not sure, just hit skip.
Reputation should not be a measure of quality of the posts, most contrary, high reputation users set the example to the community and should be the higher quality possible.
