GDelscribe said:
AFAIK approvals are done in random order instead of chronologically from the back (which is just plain silly, but I digress) so they sometimes take a while.
High-quality posts get approved quickly. The rest often need a second (or third) opinion, and end up sitting in the queue for a long time because of that. There's nothing silly about that. It's for the sake of maintaining the quality standards.
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