diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 0cc5fad02..0d85c7312 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ The homepage team appreciates all effort and interest from the community in fili
 - Issues, pull requests and discussions that are closed will be locked after 30 days of inactivity.
 - Discussions with a marked answer will be automatically closed.
 - Discussions in the 'General' or 'Support' categories will be closed after 180 days of inactivity.
-- Feature requests that do not meet the following thresholds will be closed: 5 "up-votes" after 180 days of inactivity or 10 "up-votes" after 365 days.
+- Feature requests that do not meet the following thresholds will be closed: 10 "up-votes" after 180 days of inactivity or 20 "up-votes" after 365 days.
 
 In all cases, threads can be re-opened by project maintainers and, of course, users can always create a new discussion for related concerns.
 Finally, remember that all information remains searchable and 'closed' feature requests can still serve as inspiration for new features.
diff --git a/docs/widgets/authoring/getting-started.md b/docs/widgets/authoring/getting-started.md
index 4b9126ea7..dd33c21ef 100644
--- a/docs/widgets/authoring/getting-started.md
+++ b/docs/widgets/authoring/getting-started.md
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ self-hosted / open-source alternative, we ask that any widgets, etc. are develop
 
 To ensure cohesiveness of various widgets, the following should be used as a guide for developing new widgets:
 
-- Please only submit widgets that target a feature request discussion with at least 10 'up-votes'. The purpose of this requirement is to avoid the addition (and maintenance) of service widgets that might only benefit a small number of users.
+- Please only submit widgets that target a feature request discussion with at least 20 'up-votes'. The purpose of this requirement is to avoid the addition (and maintenance) of service widgets that might only benefit a small number of users.
 - Note that we reserve the right to decline widgets for projects that are very young (eg < ~1y) or those with a small reach (eg low GitHub stars). Again, this is in an effort to keep overall widget maintenance under control.
 - Widgets should be only one row of blocks
 - Widgets should be no more than 4 blocks wide and generally conform to the styling / design choices of other widgets