Questions tagged [dupehammer]
For questions about the ability of gold tag badge holders to unilaterally close and reopen duplicates which were asked in tags of which they have a gold badge, and for them to edit the duplicate targets of such questions.
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Increase close vote weight for gold tag badge holders
In order to increase the efficiency with which poor quality questions are closed, it could make sense to have weighted close votes for a small subset of qualified users.
A very good way to measure ...
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Gold tag-badge holders and moderators can now edit duplicate links
As of a few minutes ago, if you have a gold tag-badge for a tag associated with a question that's been closed as a duplicate, you can edit the duplicate links to replace, add, remove or re-arrange ...
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How Do I Opt Out of Privileges?
According to multiple mods, gold badge holders can now unilaterally close questions as duplicates. I hold seven gold badges for tags on SO, which means I can, on my own, close questions as duplicates ...
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Missing font on some error and dupehammer info popups
Some popups like the dupehammer explanation popup or the validation error ones on the contact form do not have the right fonts - the browser has to fall back to a default and quite ugly font instead.
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No notification for comment reply when using Dupe Hammer along with other close voters
User who cast a binding close vote on a question should be notified when someone comment-reply him/her, even without ever leaving a comment.
This still works fine when I am the only close voter, e.g. ...
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It looks like the duplicate banner changed. How does it work now?
I noticed this morning that posts that were closed with a gold badge dupe hammer have a new banner.
A couple of examples of the new look are below.
Is this a new change or just testing as I can't ...
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Please remind me when I am wielding the dupe hammer
We've already had people ask if they can decline the ability that comes with a gold tag badge to insta-close-as-dupe questions in their tags. I did this by accident today myself.
On reflection, I ...
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Dupehammer creates and deletes a comment, causing notifications to go out
The dupehammer is a good system. But when a gold badge holder closes a question, a comment still gets created on the voter's behalf, even though it will be immediately deleted by the system due to the ...
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Swing the gold hammer even more
Since May 2014 users having the gold badge for a specific tag have been able to close questions as duplicates with a single close vote - the dupehammer.
Back then, when asked if that feature would be ...
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Allow gold badge users to "propose" duplicates, to give the author a chance to contest the proposed duplicate
Please note: this is not a duplicate of How Do I Opt Out of Privileges?, which asks to give gold tag badge holders the ability to cast normal close votes in case they're not sure of their vote. I ...
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What is the proper behavior when someone abuses the close-vote superpowers?
I got this question in the re-open vote queue.
I noticed it is marked as a duplicate of a question titled Complete and utter nonsense, which was a bit suspicious. So I looked at the bottom of that ...
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Can't single-handedly reopen a dupehammered Q after editing gold tag to another gold tag
I dupehammered Right way to add cronjob-threading functionality to Tomcat webapp with gold jsf badge. Then OP complained and edited the question into a too broad recommendation request. While still a ...
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Editing the duplicate list doesn't really work on mobile with the new responsive design
When trying to add a duplicate target to a closed question on my iPhone, I'd like to paste a URL in the box where you're supposed to 'search, or enter a question link or numeric id'. However, the ...
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No No Longer Grinchy for reopening with Dupe Hammer
I noticed the No Longer Grinchy hat:
It clearly says: (emphasis mine)
participate in successfully reopening or undeleting a question
I have reopened several questions today, latest is this ...
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The gold tag badge doesn't show on the mobile version when closing as a duplicate
When I vote to close as a duplicate on the regular site it shows the gold badge behind my name:
That does work for the web site, but that doesn't show up in the mobile website:
Sample question I ...
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Add keyboard shortcut for editing the list of duplicates
Users with a gold badge in a tag are able to edit the list of duplicates for a question. There are no keyboard shortcuts defined for this. For example, a rather routine task is to close a question ...
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Should dupehammer wielders use their powers to wipe obviously incorrect close-as-duplicate votes?
Occasionally, a user will cast a close-as-duplicate vote that's clearly incorrect. If that vote closes the question as duplicate, a gold tag badge user in a tag for the question ("dupehammer user") ...
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Gold badge duplicate close and reopen vote invalidates existing votes
I know this is how things should work now, and maybe not that much of a priority, but I wonder if there is an easy solution to this.
On a question (now deleted by its author), I voted to close as '...
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Add Link to questions in the revision note for duplicate question changes
When the duplicate list is edited currently the revision history just lists the post IDs of the duplicate list before and after the change:
Can those post IDs be actual links to those questions?
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Network Profile shouldn't be showing comments that were auto-generated and immediately auto-deleted
I closed a question with my Gold Badge a couple of days ago. When I happened to peruse the comment history on my Network Profile just now, I noticed the following comment on that post:
Possible ...
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Why can't gold tag badge holders "instantly close" for non-duplicate reasons?
After reading this answer to Increase close vote weight for gold tag badge holders, I was able to better understand the reasons that led users who have a gold badge in a tag to gain the ability to ...
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Show dupehammer in close reasons on iOS app
In the screenshot below, Shadow Wizard has the ultimate power of the mighty dupehammer, but the tag badge is not shown in the question closed dialogue.
This may cause confusion for some users since ...
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Is clearing pending close votes with diamond power / gold tag badge power considered abuse? [duplicate]
Recently, I saw a moderator on Android Enthusiasts telling folks to stop voting to close a question. The mod was clever to find out that the question is actually on topic, and I added that the title ...
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What are differences between synonyms with and without merging from the practical point of view?
It is well-known that creating a synonym and merging two tags are two completely independent actions1 - sometimes a synonym is created and the tags aren't merged, sometimes two tags are merged without ...
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Is the ability to unilaterally close/reopen duplicates for Gold Badge holders SO specific? [duplicate]
This is posted and answered on SO meta: When did I get close-vote superpowers?
Does that mean the ability to unilaterally close/reopen duplicates for Gold Badge holders SO specific? Or does it work ...
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Don't give dupe-hammer for special tags
All of you know that Meta sites have special groups of tags:
required tags: [feature-request] [support] [bug] [discussion]
moderator tags: all of [status-*] tags
At the same time there's such ...
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Add gold tag badge privileges to a user's Privileges page
I think it would be very handy to have a users 'privileges' page (what you see when you go to /help/privileges) also show the user's gold tag badge privileges. Currently it just lists the reputation-...
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Should gold tag badges in required tags on meta provide insta-close-dupe functionality?
I am, apparently, one of 12 people with the gold tag badge for feature-request and one of 39 people with the gold tag badge for discussion here on meta.se. I hadn't realized this until I cast a close ...
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Show the gold badge in addition to the diamond when a moderator closes as a duplicate
(tl;dr) When a moderator closes as a duplicate - if they have a gold badge in the tag(s) they're doing so -- display the gold badge in addition to the diamond
I think it's fair to say that moderators ...
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The return of the tag-badges exploit
The tag-badges exploit was an old exploit in Stack Exchange: at the time, a total of 1000 votes across all your answers on a tag would give you a gold tag badge for that tag. This lead to an edge case ...
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Error modal underlaps duplicate finder when attempting to add a second duplicate to a question
Steps to reproduce:
Edit a duplicate question and attempt to add the same question as a second duplicate.
Expected behavior:
I should see an error telling me I can't add a question as a duplicate ...
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Add the new duplicate link edit events to the user's own history
Gold badgers can now edit the link list on questions closed as duplicates. However, there seems to be no record of having made these edits anywhere in the user's own history. One would think they ...
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Hammer indication missing when closing as dupe through the API
As we all know by now, when a power user is using a binding close vote, there is visual indication:
However, as can be seen here, when I closed a question as duplicate via the iOS app that indication ...
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Let moderators disable the dupehammer for certain tags
Recently it was announced that the new "weighted" close votes from tag badge holders will be going network-wide. I'd like to request that moderators have the ability to disable this for ...
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Add some line breaks in the "duplicate list edited" message in the timeline and revision history [duplicate]
When a gold badge user or a moderator edits the duplicate list of a question, it now properly shows the new list's links in the timeline.
This change is great, but I think we can do even better.
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Unable to edit the duplicate list
I have the javascript dupe hammer on SO. I closed Uploading image file to php server as a duplicate earlier today, and I was just trying to edit the duplicate list to add a more appropriate question.
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Gold badge holder changes to duplicates are not displayed in iOS app
When gold badge holder is adding multiple questions using the new mechanism, the iOS app only shows a single duplicate (the original target). It would be great if all of the duplicate links were ...
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Gold-badge duplicate hammers don't appear to check tag synonyms as far as I can tell; is this so, and should it be fixed if so?
From my research, it appears that if a user has a gold badge for a tag A, and a question is tagged with a tag B which is a synonym of A, the user won't be able to bindingly close as a duplicate ...
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Duplicate list "edit" link erroneously displayed on non-closed questions
Summary: A broken duplicate list "edit" link is shown to the author of a post in the "possible duplicate" banner when the author also has a gold tag badge and the question is flagged but not yet ...
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Is there anything to stop a Gold Tag person editing a tag in to close any question they want? [duplicate]
Someone with a gold badge in a tag can Dupe Hammer, and close it in one go, like a moderator.
Is there anything to stop a Gold Tag user from editing in that tag to close it? Or is that allowed, like ...
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What is the community's opinion on modifying older-style duplicate closures to the newer style?
This is not a duplicate of Editing duplicate banner edited into the text of the question. The main question there is only if something "special" will happen if someone edits out the automatic text. ...
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Why can I bypass the duplicate-closure-prevention-system on some questions but not others?
Regular users cannot close questions as duplicates if the original question is unanswered (as per Stack Exchange definition of answered, i.e. answered and upvoted). If they try to do so they receive ...
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Change "original tags" to "current tags" in the help center description of the dupehammer
The help center tells us the dupehammer works with the original tags of the question:
A question can be closed as duplicate with a single vote from a moderator or a user who has earned a gold tag ...
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Questions tagged with a synonym of a tag and closed by a user with a gold badge for the master tag incorrectly show the synonym in the close notice
The situation is very likely related to Questions migrated to localized meta sites get the [discussion] tag in English even if it's synonymized to the localized tag equivalent
But in this case ...
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Dupehammer: don't just automatically close a question, give the Wielder a choice of whether to use Great Power [duplicate]
I just voted to close a question as a duplicate. There were previously no other votes to close. After I voted to close, the question was closed. This puzzled me for a second, and then I realized it ...
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Dupe hammer - "original tags only" limitation
The question was asked and answered earlier: Is there anything to stop a Gold Tag person editing a tag to close any question they want? and the answer is "yes - only original tags on a question count ...
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Should a dupehammer grant the ability to dupe to multiple questions? [duplicate]
Currently when a moderator or gold tag badge holder closes a question as a dupe, they are limited to duping it to just one question. However, when several users vote to close the question, you can end ...
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Can tag gold-badge holders take off their golden hat when casting close votes? [duplicate]
It was my understanding that when a tag gold-badge (TGB) holder casts a close vote for dupes, the question gets closed immediately. It doesn't matter in what order a TGB holder casts their vote.
I ...
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Does notification in comment work for gold tag badge holders if they are not the only person that reopened/closed a question? [duplicate]
The answer for the question How do comment @replies work? states the following:
For questions: The moderator or gold badge holder who closed or reopened the question, provided they were the only one ...
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Why can't moderators add "partial dupes" to the "list of dupes"? [duplicate]
A question may sometime be a combination of dupes of multiple other questions. If that happens, it should be possible - both before and after the question is closed as a dupe (with a dupehammer or ...
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