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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. …

I. Short Version Make it easier for lesser rep users who actually contribute in janitorial work, by giving them access to some of these tools between 3k and 10k. II. Long Version A. Pre-ramble Preambl …

We have the dupe-hammer specifically for duplicates, and tying it to reputation on specific tags makes sense. …

This is done to address the request made in: Only prohibit those who edited the tags from using the dupe hammer. Second, we made some UI changes to make this behavior more discoverable. … The new notice (in case the vote was binding) looks like this (the popup shows on hover): Note that this banner was not added on the first few uses of the hammer, which did not record any indication …

The main difference between tag badge holders and tag curators is that users with domain expertise who are also interested in tag curation will edit, vote-to-close, dupe-hammer and/or answer old questions … Tag curators who scavenge for old content, especially when looking for dupe targets, may very easily come across off-topic posts that escaped moderation. …

moment and rush to the answer field Makes it clearer to the OP that the dupe suggestion bears "official" weight and is not just a comment by a random user. … I would love to see the Montrose Science Hammer(tm) dropped on this: do OPs actually look at those suggestions? But that is a different story.) …

After speaking with many other users who do lots of user moderation in their favourite tags (gold badge/dupe hammer), it turns out that almost every such user uses the site's "favourite" feature as their …

Ever since the release of the feature that allowed users with the dupe/gold hammer privilege to edit a question's duplicate list, there hasn't been any improvement to how it is displayed in the post revisions …

To throw some data out there (cause I love my science hammer)... First off, everyone needs to be aware that the debate is essentially over old content. … closed, historical lock ick Contract.Requires throwing pex errors closed as dupe correctly closed Why is this implemented as a struct? …

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. …

One more issue is that dupe hammer (gold badge for “обсуждение”) doesn’t close the question tagged “discussion”. …

The first question closed during Winter Bash this year was a dupe "hammered" by a gold badge holder, making Stack Overflow's Paul Roub the first to earn both Melpomene and Odinson. …

Of course, having high rep or gold badge dupe-hammer on one Stack Exchange site should not automatically grant me the same or equivalent on another, but I feel it should grant some of the lower privileges …

I'm in agreement with Shog9 that this seems like a reasonable suggestion. Duplicate questions bug me... a lot, so much that during my interviews with SE it was one of the things I raised as something …

Odinson This serves the dual purposes of encouraging good close voting and increasing awareness of the dupe-hammer privilege. …