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Raising the privilege to 15 is the easy solution here.

And since it's Friday evening, easy is all I have the patience for.

Henceforth, close voting on private betas will be documented as a 15 reputation privilege.

FWIW: almost nobody ever used this privilege even when it did work. I counted 25 close votes raised during private betas by users with under 15 rep... In the entire history of the network...

Raising the privilege to 15 is the easy solution here.

And since it's Friday evening, easy is all I have the patience for.

Henceforth, close voting on private betas will be documented as a 15 reputation privilege.

This also fixes the other bug you linked; users won't have access to or be shown tasks in the Close Votes queue until they've earned the privilege.

FWIW: almost nobody ever used this privilege even when it did work. I counted 25 close votes raised during private betas by users with under 15 rep... In the entire history of the network...

Raising the privilege to 15 is the easy solution here.

And since it's Friday evening, easy is all I have the patience for.

Henceforth, close voting on private betas will require 15 reputation.

FWIW: almost nobody ever used this privilege even when it did work. I counted 25 < 15 rep close voters during private betas in the entire history of the network...

Raising the privilege to 15 is the easy solution here.

And since it's Friday evening, easy is all I have the patience for.

Henceforth, close voting on private betas will be documented as a 15 reputation privilege.

FWIW: almost nobody ever used this privilege even when it did work. I counted 25 close votes raised during private betas by users with under 15 rep... In the entire history of the network...

Raising the privilege to 15 is the easy solution here.

And since it's Friday evening, easy is all I have the patience for.

Henceforth, close voting on private betas will be 15

FWIW: almost nobody ever used this privilege even when it did work. I counted 25 < 15 rep close voters during private betas in the entire history of the network...

Raising the privilege to 15 is the easy solution here.

And since it's Friday evening, easy is all I have the patience for.

Henceforth, close voting on private betas will require 15 reputation.

FWIW: almost nobody ever used this privilege even when it did work. I counted 25 < 15 rep close voters during private betas in the entire history of the network...