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I had been watching a question that had a few close votes on it, and when I refreshed the page, the close votes were gone.

Then I went to the review tab, and found this:

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Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah? I recall possibly reading that close votes wouldn't be backwards compatible, but did 55K+ questions just lose their close votes?

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    That was an easy way to clear out the review queue.
    – Taryn
    Jun 25, 2013 at 21:07
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    I cast two close votes on the same question because my first one vanished. Also my helpful flag count suddenly increased (cannot say by how much though), but that might be unrelated.
    – Felix
    Jun 25, 2013 at 21:11
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    I just found a question that has five close votes, but is still open. Weirdness.
    – LittleBobbyTables - Au Revoir
    Jun 25, 2013 at 21:15
  • Aaaand now it is closed.
    – Chris
    Jun 25, 2013 at 21:17
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    @Chris - with six votes ;) It's super-on-hold.
    – LittleBobbyTables - Au Revoir
    Jun 25, 2013 at 21:17
  • Creepy indeed. I'm still trying to figure out if I'm upset that the close queue is empty. I mean.... it is empty. Yay?
    – Chris
    Jun 25, 2013 at 21:18
  • @Chris Maybe they should implement something similar to clean the flags
    – Lamak
    Jun 25, 2013 at 21:19
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    @Felix: The helpful flag count should have increased because all the old comment flags are now shown in history and should now have a status applied to them.
    – animuson StaffMod
    Jun 25, 2013 at 21:20
  • @animuson: Thanks! Was this mentioned somewhere explicitly?
    – Felix
    Jun 25, 2013 at 21:24
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    @Felix: I had asked Oded about it when I noticed on Meta (only because I had recently flagged a comment here).
    – animuson StaffMod
    Jun 25, 2013 at 21:26
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    Oh damn. All 55.5k of them are back.
    – Matt
    Jun 25, 2013 at 21:34
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    YES!!!!!!!!!!!!1one!
    – Undo
    Jun 25, 2013 at 21:47
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    Hah, I downvoted myself by closing this, that's mildly amusing.
    – LittleBobbyTables - Au Revoir
    Jun 25, 2013 at 22:48
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    Hmmm, that's a little unfair. Meta could do with an exception for this thing... the whole "off-topic" part of too localized on MSO doesn't seem right somehow.
    – ben is uǝq backwards
    Jun 25, 2013 at 22:50
  • @LBT You no longer incur a downvote for having your question closed anymore...
    – user215114
    Oct 29, 2013 at 20:01

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This was a mistake - it has been corrected.

55.6K, baby

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