It was at one point, and then a bunch of people started joining in on this thread. There was a point where 100 was being reached every 15 minutes. It got to the point where I was simply about to just give up and put the thread on ignore. But we decided to tally a vote for whether or not it should be raised. I temporarily changed the thread type into a poll asking if the number should be raised to 200. It ended up being around 75% yes and 25% no. I deleted the poll and then modified the original rules. I think that was back in August... maybe?
Edit: Checked the moderator actions history and the poll was created on July 29th and then closed a few days later. So I was close.