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Just about half an hour ago, my review queue jumped up to over 120 items. I started going through them but most of them are quite old, like Late Answers from 2009 - 2012. I did recently pass 4k reputation.

Is this normal? Should I go through and process about 120 late answers from years ago as I find the time? Why would they not have been addressed by high rep users prior to now?

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  • Also why when there is over 40 review tasks for me to do does the system tell me the following? "Thank you for reviewing 20 late answers today; come back in 13 hours to continue reviewing."
    – Neil Meyer
    Sep 30 '15 at 10:18
  • I had some time and could have done them if the system allowed it.
    – Neil Meyer
    Sep 30 '15 at 10:18
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    @NeilMeyer The 20 reviews a day is a way to prevent the robo reviewing. I wouldn't worry too much about all of this, just do your 20 a day and the queue will empty quite quickly :)
    – yo'
    Sep 30 '15 at 12:26
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This is because SE has raised the rep requirement for late answers. See Can we raise the bar for reputation for late answers to bypass the review queue?

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  • I don't understand the whole system well enough to connect that fact with my situation or see how I should respond to my now much larger queue. Do I understand correctly that users with a certain rep will not have their answers go in the late answer queue no matter how late their answer is, and that rep cutoff is what has been changed?
    – Todd Wilcox
    Sep 29 '15 at 20:33
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    Oh, so did everyone just get a bunch of late answers dumped into their queues across all of Stack Exchange?
    – Todd Wilcox
    Sep 29 '15 at 20:35
  • Yup - that's not many here, but around 800-odd on SO
    – Doktor Mayhem Mod
    Sep 29 '15 at 20:44
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    @ToddWilcox users with rep less than 50, will have their answers go to the queue
    – Shevliaskovic
    Sep 30 '15 at 9:27

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