Thanks for this thorough and very well-written post! I'm not complaining about what is being done on those 13 sites, but I would very much not like this to change on some of the newer Beta sites like Matter Modeling, because we're still getting a feel for what the community wants closed and not closed, and some posts have more than 3 people with an opinion on either side.

Furthermore, people can cast close/re-open votes with only 500 reputation on such Beta sites, and it's extremely easy to reach 500 for users that participate in the Private Beta because voting is rampant in the first 2 weeks (just look at the voting analytics of Beta sites from the first 2 weeks compared to later on). Some of those Private Beta users who reached 500 rep with only a couple posts that were upvoted 25 times each, may have to big of an influence if they can cast 1/3 of the required close/re-open votes, even after years of not participating in the site at all since Private Beta.

Thanks for this thorough and very well-written post! I'm not complaining about what is being done on those 13 sites, but I would very much not like this to change on some of the newer Beta sites like Matter Modeling, because we're still getting a feel for what the community wants closed and not closed, and some posts have more than 3 people with an opinion on either side.

Furthermore, people can cast close/re-open votes with only 500 reputation on such Beta sites, and it's extremely easy to reach 500 for users that participate in the Private Beta because voting is rampant in the first 2 weeks (just look at the voting analytics of Beta sites from the first 2 weeks compared to later on). Some of those Private Beta users who reached 500 rep with only a couple posts that were upvoted 25 times each, may have too big of an influence if they can cast 1/3 of the required close/re-open votes, even after years of not participating in the site at all since Private Beta.