Brock, this is GENIUS!
I am hereby using my super-upvote on this feature-request:
Close votes (and probably reopen votes) only expire after all of these conditions are met:
- 4 days have passed since the last close vote.
4 days have passed since the last close vote.
The question has more than 100 views.
- The question has more than 100 views.
(#3 is kind of impossible to implement, and anyway, I think these two changes are huge.)