diff --git a/.github/workflows/closed-issue-message.yml b/.github/workflows/closed-issue-message.yml
index 000b89ffe6..d28ab658f7 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/closed-issue-message.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/closed-issue-message.yml
@@ -17,7 +17,5 @@ jobs:
             # These inputs are both required
             repo-token: "${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}"
             message: |
-                     ### ⚠️COMMENT VISIBILITY WARNING⚠️ 
-                     Comments on closed issues are hard for our team to see. 
+                     This issue is now closed. Comments on closed issues are hard for our team to see.
                      If you need more assistance, please either tag a team member or open a new issue that references this one. 
-                     If you wish to keep having a conversation with other community members under this issue feel free to do so.
diff --git a/.github/workflows/stale_issue.yml b/.github/workflows/stale_issue.yml
index a732520b84..a71e51c4bb 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/stale_issue.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/stale_issue.yml
@@ -36,8 +36,8 @@ jobs:
         closed-for-staleness-label: closed-for-staleness
 
         # Issue timing
-        days-before-stale: 5
-        days-before-close: 2
+        days-before-stale: 10
+        days-before-close: 4
 
         # If you don't want to mark a issue as being ancient based on a
         # threshold of "upvotes", you can set this here. An "upvote" is