Totally agree. The suggested edit “robo reviewers” was a big problem on SO, constant source of friction and frustration. A problem they never managed to solve. Review queues in general are a very bad thing to have. Having a moderator chasing the 3 to 5 supposedly experienced users who did a poor edit review, chasing the person who did a poor edit, chasing the person who posted a bad post in the first place… that’s really not a sound design and so much waste of time. This is something we should definitely try to avoid and badges just made the problem worse (at least on SO).
Instead, I’d love to see lots of dev effort put into new user experience, ask-question-wizards, smart pre-question posting scripts, mentor programs and so on, whatever people can come up with. A positive new user experience is going to make the sites sell themselves. That’s another thing SO never quite managed to fix.