Thanks, Matt. that's a main reason I asked this -- trying to understand what the policy was so I could follow it, and not try to set it based on what I'd prefer to do.

if it was offering them to you, bart, it wasn't you, because someone initiated the close review. Someone did.I did flag some of them to leave them open, but don't take that to presume I think you're wrong; it's a judgement call and what matters is the consensus opinion, not mine...

My, too. I was just surprised to see them start surfacing in numbers when it didn't seem to be part of a group-driven effort. that's why I flagged it in case it was a case of potential abuse...

Sure, to the degree I can. two nights ago I checked in about 11PM PST and looked at what was up for review, and where I might normally see 1 or 2, there were 15 articles up for closure review. The next night, about the same time, about eight. almost all of them were from 2012 or before with no recent activity. Very anomalous from the normal review queue content. if I continue to see it I'll try to capture more detail. from the timing, it felt like the work of one person and seemed out of place to me.

if you start accepting lenses, you create a slippery slope, because now "this" is okay and "that" isn't, and frankly, I wouldn't want to be the person answering "why?" questions or policing that. And I agree we don't want this place to become another gear bag chatter place.