Hi @Buttonstc,
Usually it is only a few minutes. But the moderation team does not keep regular hours. We come and go as our outside schedules allow. For this reason I wanted to give a wider range of time.
Regarding Social and Meta- if a question was sent to the user to edit then yes, a moderator must check to be sure the corrections were made before re-posting it.
The only exception is if a question was posted in General that had become chatty or did not meet the guidelines for General but was good for social. We have a fast track button that allows the user to immediately re-post the question themselves in Social.
Regarding the fast track button you may wonder “Why don’t they just move it?”
We actually give the user the choice in the event that they would prefer to edit the question to meet the General guidelines. If we were to move it then it would begin to get relaxed responses that the author might not want.
I hope this clarified things a bit. :)