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The "Increase close vote weight for gold tag badge holders" behavior seems to be inconsistent. I happened to close a question as a duplicate (instantly) with my "Gold Badge Super Powers"(Yay!) but realized that there was another user who had voted to close the same question prior to me and even had the "Gold Badge" for the tag under which the now closed question is tagged.

Why wasn't the question closed as a duplicate immediately when the other user MadProgrammer (having gold badge) had voted to close it? Why did the came into effect only after I voted to close it as a duplicate? This seems to be a bit inconsistent to me.

JFYI, this is the question, "How many String objects are created in java", I'm talking about.

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I just clarified with MadProgrammer regarding his close vote. As he said he didn't cast close vote as duplicate. He voted to close as off-topic. So as per dupehammer rule he must vote as duplicate. So it's not a bug. It's by design.

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  • But his name was shown in the marked as duplicate list right? Shouldn't his name have been excluded from the list in that case?
    – Rahul
    Commented Jun 19, 2014 at 5:48
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    @R.J That's the list of people who voted to close the question for any reason, even if the final reason for closure is not the reason they chose.
    – doppelgreener
    Commented Jun 19, 2014 at 5:50
  • @R.J Really? Can you link to an example? My understanding was that it shows all close voters in the list, regardless of reason.
    – AndrewC
    Commented Jun 19, 2014 at 5:56
  • @R.J - IIRC this only happens when the question is closed as off-topic.
    – Himanshu
    Commented Jun 19, 2014 at 6:15
  • @AndrewC - I don't have an example at hand but I'm pretty sure I've seen that. May be it is for off-topic reasons alone, but I've for sure seen that.
    – Rahul
    Commented Jun 19, 2014 at 6:17
  • @hims056 - Yeah I guess so but the close vote reason and voters list, regardless of the type should be consistent right?
    – Rahul
    Commented Jun 19, 2014 at 6:18
  • @R.J - That is not implemented yet.
    – Himanshu
    Commented Jun 19, 2014 at 6:20
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    @hims056 - May be I saw something else then. Nevertheless, I guess this answer clarifies my doubt. :)
    – Rahul
    Commented Jun 19, 2014 at 7:05

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