Evaluate actions, if any, that should be taken in regard to the change in close votes threshold

[Zvax]

SO is lowering the votes threshold to close and reopen questions.

As an obvious effect, it is now easier to close questions. It is common to post cv-pls requests in the SOCVR. These together, might mean that there is now a very potent effect to posting cv-pls requests, and it's possible but not necessary that changes in policy be needed?

There was already some discussion about it in chat (message from TylerH):

@NathanOliver-ReinstateMonica @chipster Yeah; no change should be necessary for the room at least for a week or so. The queue should start to drop a bit, though, and eventually the room will thin out too re: outstanding requests. But we'll still probably run out of CVs as frequently. Currently we tend to have more requests than can be fulfilled in a given day.

The goal of this issue is that this topic be brought to the attention of the meeting, not to imply that any change should be undertaken.

[ComputerBytez]

Ugh. Beat me to it :D . Note that there has been some more discussion about it other than the message you linked to, but that is easy to find in the transcript as it happened around the time the message you linked to was posted.

I've already given my 2 cents (I'm Chipster, btw. I'm sure that's not very apparent from my Github username), but I will say again that I think we should wait a bit to discuss this until the effects (if any) on room operations is more apparent. However, we don't really know when a room meeting will take place, and it'd probably be good to not forget about it.

[Tyler-H]

As part of this, we should touch on the "recent activity" rule #12 and whether it is still needed now that questions are more quickly closed due to the 3CV change. See the beginning of a short conversation on it here: https://chat.stackoverflow.com/transcript/message/49408500#49408500

[makyen]

The definition of "recent activity" has been updated to mean within the last 6 months. This should give us more information as to what level of requests we'll be getting with that particular requirement relaxed.

[codygray]

I think the room over the past several months has been doing exceptionally well in keeping up with requests. The backlog seems small, and most of the requests that do not get actioned seem to be cases where reviewers aren't sure closure is even appropriate.

However, I'm not sure to what extent the room's recent ability to keep up with requests is due to the threshold being lowered to 3, or a certain moderator who visits the room and hammers all the things.