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The recommendation closehammer you're suggesting only applies to certain sites. Others like Role-playing Games embrace them; they either just work naturally in that context or the site's found a way to help them work. Also, the gold badge suggestion was initially suggested as having extra close vote weight, and shog9 suggested it should just be 1 vote = close for reasons that are pretty sound to me. However, I feel OK with giving silver badge users a dupehammer and gold badge users an unclear hammer.
– doppelgreener
Commented Oct 9, 2014 at 23:39
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Yes, yes, yes for silver badge holders to use the dupehammer.
– Scimonster
Commented Nov 23, 2014 at 10:29

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