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Dom

7:43 PM

@RoryAlsop why do we now have 100+ items in the late review queue?

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8:02 PM

Q: Very old items in review queue

Just about half an hour ago, my review queue jumped up to over 120 items. I started going through them but most of them are quite old, like Late Answers from 2009 - 2012. I did recently pass 4k reputation. Is this normal? Should I go through and process about 120 late answers from years ago as I...

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Rory Alsop

8:17 PM

A: Can we raise the bar for reputation for late answers to enter the review queue?

Queue growth Review queues lose effectiveness if posts aren't regularly (and accurately) cleared. A queue such as close votes on Stack Overflow that never seems to get to 0 fails to provide time-sensitive feedback that aids learning. So if we raise the bar for late answers which increases the nu...