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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 decided not to reopen, and my asker thanked me for finding the dupe, so that question is staying closed. …

and the answer is "yes - only original tags on a question count for the dupe hammer". I have a problem with that. … What does the community think - should the dupe hammer holder be permitted to edit in the tag, then close the question? …

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 feature as dupe-hammer … Hence, my suggestion is to exclude such special tags from the dupe-hammer ability and leave only regular tags for this purpose. …

I try to weld my dupe hammer carefully - honest I do. I'm well aware which tags I can use it in, and I do not agree that I need reminding when it's about to be used. … I wondered what people might think about some (or all) users being able to provide me with feedback when I dupe hammer. …

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 one, using the Dupe … Hammer, however I wasn't given the hat. …

Which lead me to this: Where the question was reopened, and the decisive fifth vote was cast using the mighty dupe hammer. … I can't recall another question that was recently active by re-opening, so is this and edge case cause by wielding the un-dupe hammer? …

Once upon a time, dupe hammer was given to gold tag badge holders. Recently, question authors aka OP received quite a similar hammer as well. … Now, suppose OP who has a gold tag badge asks a question with the tag he/she has hammer for, gets a duplicate flag/vote and choose "That solved my problem". …

Someone voted to close my question as dupe, and I used the self-dupe-hammer to close it completely. I realize that it is Community who closes the question. …

For a long time now a six-figure user has been consistently answering questions from a certain tag and dupe-hammering quite a few of them right afterwards. … Is it okay for a gold tag badge holder to answer a duplicate question of the tag and dupe-hammer it right afterwards? …

Ordinarily, holders of gold tag badges have the privilege of "dupe-hammer" (binding VTC vote as a duplicate) on questions that have a tag they have the gold badge in. …

Let's compare hammers for a bit:     New user who is oblivious to the way Stack Exchange sites work does not really know the difference between the symbols, so to get more details about the intrigu …

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. …

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. …

When a normal user votes to close as a duplicate, a comment is posted. When the question is closed, the comment is removed. The same happens with someone with a gold tag - a comment was posted then …

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 indicati …