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    just one more little step further and you'll bring some power to guys like me, with bronze badges
    – gnat
    Commented Oct 8, 2014 at 10:44
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    "having your vote count as two instead of one" If that was the case, my votes on all feature requests, discussions and support question on MSE would count as two. I think that's sufficient proof that it's a bad idea.
    – yannis
    Commented Oct 8, 2014 at 10:47
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    @gnat I thought for quite a while on what we might be able to do at the bronze level, and anything I came up with, most folks can do from having rep alone. If you've got some ideas, even kind of crazy ones, I'd encourage you to post them. I'd really love to introduce folks to the concept of extra privileges coming from badges that early on - I just can't find a privilege that (1) makes sense and (2) is actually useful for something immediately.
    – user50049
    Commented Oct 8, 2014 at 11:06
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    Dupe-hammer to silver, and close-hammer to gold?
    – John Dvorak
    Commented Oct 8, 2014 at 11:08
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    @JanDvorak Don't think we'd do single-vote closures other than duplicate for non-mods. With the dupe, you .. well ... need to have an eligible dupe and while I think many people would use it responsibly, I really fear folks closing everything they don't like, and some people don't like stuff for some very strange reasons. "This question appears to be off topic because the text is shaped like a dinosaur" (while being humorous, that's along the lines of what I'm afraid of).
    – user50049
    Commented Oct 8, 2014 at 11:12
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    @TimPost I don't see single-vote closure being extended to all cases but when a question is "Can someone point out a library for doing X", do we really need to have 5 folks agreeing that it is off-topic? Same with typo questions. I'm not claiming that there are no borderline cases but borderline cases happen with all the close reasons, including duplicates, The vast majority of external resource requests and typo questions are not borderline cases.
    – Louis
    Commented Oct 8, 2014 at 13:59
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    @Louis When we ship the remaining things in the quality project, you'll see far less of that stuff altogether. It'll still come in the system, but it won't get through a much more refined review process, a lot of which is mostly automated.
    – user50049
    Commented Oct 8, 2014 at 15:45
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    Like it or not, difficult to implement or not, increasing close-vote weights is indeed the most logical thing to try. If it worked well for the dupe-hammer it makes sense to try something similar for silver holders. I can't imagine that explaining will be that bad. (it can't be any worse than the gazillion questions we have about the repcap/removed votes/deleted users, etc...)
    – Mysticial
    Commented Nov 4, 2014 at 23:41
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    Off-topic: What makes adding weights so difficult to implement? I can't imagine it could be that hard to change the logic to add weights? Or it is a backward compatibility problem with the way they are stored in the database?
    – Mysticial
    Commented Nov 4, 2014 at 23:56
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    As a suggestion for getting to use the site as a lower-privileged user, why not set up a sock-puppet account and see how that works?
    – MTL
    Commented Nov 5, 2014 at 23:18
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    Change nothing, but pop up a message that says "you'll get a gold one next" and empower them through confidence-building and bright visions of the future?
    – Jason C
    Commented Nov 5, 2014 at 23:38
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    Has any further discussion occurred on this topic? I'd be interested to see whatever y'all have come up with. :)
    – hichris123
    Commented Apr 16, 2016 at 19:40
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    Did anything get done about this in the end?
    – Ian Ringrose
    Commented Sep 22, 2016 at 11:59
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    @IanRingrose usually such a rambling silence means "nope".
    – Shadow Wizard
    Commented Oct 25, 2016 at 21:24
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    @ShadowWizard Not "nope", just in a mix with other stuff. If we're going to scale close votes better, then there's no real use in looking at that for silver tag badges, so it remains a "we'd love to do it if we could think of a good way"
    – user50049
    Commented Oct 26, 2016 at 9:48