30 minutes ago, [this feature request][1] was tagged [tag:status-completed]: > I would like to raise the bar for **late answers** to enter the **Late > Answers Review Queue** to 50 rep, which is the threshold after which > users gain the ability **to comment**. Here are some answers that were > posted by users with between 10 to 50 rep (yes, there's a little > selection bias to be sure. I suspect most/all of these will be 10k > links only by the time you're reading this. Note, all of these are > from the **last 5 hours.** Quoting [the proposal by SE employee Jon Ericson][2]: > Raising the bar to 100 would require changing two variables at once. > Since that would make it harder to evaluate each individual change, > I'd like to try raising the reputation for getting enqueued to the > Late Answer reviews to 50 and reconsider upping it to 100 at some > point in the future. That seems to be it. It's definitely a bug, though. From [a comment][3]: > Just to note, the answers should not be older than a month and the > current spike *should* be temporary. – Jon Ericson♦ --- *Sigh*: > @muru: I'm sorry about that. Thank goodness I didn't raise the limit > to 100. As a reminder, it's easier to clear a task from this queue > than many others. A single review dequeues. – Jon Ericson♦ > > @Sven: Reverting won't help, I'm afraid. The damage has been done. I > have gone over to pitch in on Server Fault as an act of penitence. – > Jon Ericson♦ --- ## Let's get cracking, folks. [1]: https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/266696/270345 [2]: https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/267080/270345 [3]: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/266696/can-we-raise-the-bar-for-reputation-for-late-answers-to-enter-the-review-queue#comment866393_267080