This doesn't exactly feel like the right venue for this, but it's the only one I'm aware of. Let me know if there's an issue with the topic being here.
Over the months, I've thought of some small things that would make my time in the queue a little bit less tiresome, so I'm putting them out here for admins and other approvers to either sympathize with or shoot down:
"Skip all" button for parented variant sets
- For when over half of the screen is made up of minor cumstain variations that don't make the picture any more approvable than the original, a 10 page comic the approver has no interest in, and so on. It's tiring to spam click them all away when you already know your decision in advance. It could only show up under posts with 2+ or more linked status:pending images, maybe. The technicalties require some more thought. (The reverse of this, an "approve all", did cross my mind also, but the potential for abuse on the uploaders' part is probably far too high.)
Save blacklist toggle and image size settings separately between modqueue and the rest of the site
- There's plenty of stuff I can't be bothered to wade through in my personal searches, but will still approve in the queue if the quality's good enough. I'm sure I'm not the only approver who does this. Likewise, Absurd image size is good for queue speedruns and extremely impractical anywhere else. As things stand, I have to manually change 2 settings every time I want to switch between browsing/uploading and optimizing the queue. Keeping the settings separate would encourage frequently 'dropping by' the latter, outside whatever dedicated queue times one might've set aside, without disrupting regular usage of the site (at least for me).
Thoughts? These might seem trivial and likely are, but with the sheer volume of queued posts growing less and less manageable by the month, I think anything that spares approvers even a single extra click would go a long way.