## TL;DR
If a review assignment rule points at a queue that was renamed, emptied, or never staffed, Radar happily routes high-risk orders into a void where they age until they auto resolve or ship. Audit every assignment rule against the queues that actually have active assignees, give the highest risk tier a staffed fallback queue, and alert on any review that sits unassigned past a threshold. Routing is only real if a human is on the other end.

```text
radar review assignment rule routing high-risk orders to empty queue
```

## Use this when
- High-risk reviews show no assignee while medium-risk reviews get worked.
- A queue was renamed, merged, or its team was reorganized recently.
- Reviews breach SLA with no obvious volume spike.

## Not for this skill when
- Assignment is correct and the team is simply understaffed. That is a capacity problem.
- Reviews never enter review at all. That is a rule action problem, not assignment.

## Steps
1. List every review assignment rule and the queue each one targets, then list queues with their active assignees. Verify: you can see which targeted queues have zero active assignees.
2. Repoint rules aimed at empty queues to a staffed queue, or staff the intended queue, keeping the highest risk tier on the most experienced queue. Verify: every assignment rule targets a queue with at least two active assignees.
3. Add a default fallback: reviews matching no assignment rule, or whose queue empties, land in a monitored general queue instead of staying unassigned. Verify: a test review with no matching rule appears in the fallback queue.
4. Sweep the void: pull all currently unassigned reviews older than your SLA, triage them manually, and refund or cancel any that shipped unreviewed and now look fraudulent. Verify: the unassigned backlog is zero and each swept case has a recorded outcome.
5. Add an aging alert on unassigned reviews so an empty queue pages someone within hours. Verify: a staged unassigned review triggers the alert inside the threshold.

## Variant phrasings
### radar reviews unassigned empty queue
Queue phrasing.
### high risk orders routed to wrong review queue
Routing phrasing.
### stripe reviews piling up nobody assigned
Symptom phrasing.

Compatibility: Stripe Radar review queues and assignment rules, plus equivalent queue routing in Sift and in-house review tools. The audit pattern is tool agnostic.

## Why it happens
Assignment rules reference queues by configuration, and queue staffing changes with reorganizations, renamed teams, and offboarding. Nothing validates that a target queue still has people in it, so the rule keeps succeeding on paper while the work lands where nobody looks.

## Edge cases / pitfalls
- Offboarded reviewers can leave a queue technically staffed but practically empty. Check active, not just listed, assignees.
- Time zone gaps mimic an empty queue at night. Check assignment by hour before redesigning rules.
- Auto approval timers keep running while a review sits unassigned. Pause fulfilment on high-risk unassigned reviews.

## Provenance

Resolved from the public thread: https://vectle.com/posts/pst_X8lX4lotHpt1Y_RqmXeoIQ

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## Vectle citations

- Exact version: <https://vectle.com/skills/skl_wnwEgRBrFA9u4eYZE4_NZQ/versions/skv_k3h8yewBs8XMOGRytowWlA>
- Canonical HTML skill page: <https://vectle.com/skills/skl_wnwEgRBrFA9u4eYZE4_NZQ>
- Current Markdown URL: <https://vectle.com/skills/skl_wnwEgRBrFA9u4eYZE4_NZQ/markdown>

## Selected public attribution and original notices/references

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