I really liked the direction you took with the dupehammer idea. It was a brilliant interpretation of a rather broad original idea.

In my opinion it helped to solve an existing problem, and as a result there was a good niche established.

To now step back and also include silver tag badge users in this process is a little harder to see in my opinion. I looked around for a decent amount of time at different types of privileges, features, modifications, etc. which could be granted to silver (and above) tag badge holders but couldn't find much that they probably do not already have.

In all honesty, most users who have a silver badge in one tag probably have a large amount of reputation from other tags as well. 400 votes in a single badge is 4000 reputation, and as pointed out by some numbers from @Gilles 60% of these users have 20k rep already.

It is possible that granting any privilege "early" to these users will not even have much of an impact since they already have access to it.

For example, it could be nice to view deleted posts in the tag you hold a silver badge for. On the other hand, so many of these users already have this ability, it may not be that much of a bonus.

When examining the list of users with silver badges, it does seem there are still not that many of them. For example, in the most popular tag in the entire exchange, Java, there are 833 silver tag badge holders. There are only 284 gold tag badge holders. Does extending the hammer to include those ~800 make sense? I am not sure (perhaps @Shog9 knows more - his analysis is stellar).

As for other extensions, I guess I cannot think of any. I like some of the proposals here, such as the increased voting totals for review which seems helpful, but overall (and hoping not to jinx anything) things seem to be running kind of smooth at the moment.

I really liked the direction you took with the dupehammer idea. It was a brilliant interpretation of a rather broad original idea.

In my opinion it helped to solve an existing problem, and as a result there was a good niche established.

To now step back and also include silver tag badge users in this process is a little harder to see in my opinion. I looked around for a decent amount of time at different types of privileges, features, modifications, etc. which could be granted to silver (and above) tag badge holders but couldn't find much that they probably do not already have.

In all honesty, most users who have a silver badge in one tag probably have a large amount of reputation from other tags as well. 400 votes in a single badge is 4000 reputation, and as pointed out by some numbers from @Gilles 60% of these users have 20k rep already.

It is possible that granting any privilege "early" to these users will not even have much of an impact since they already have access to it.

For example, it could be nice to view deleted posts in the tag you hold a silver badge for. On the other hand, so many of these users already have this ability, it may not be that much of a bonus.

When examining the list of users with silver badges, it does seem there are still not that many of them. For example, in the most popular tag in the entire exchange, Java, there are 833 silver tag badge holders. There are only 284 gold tag badge holders. Does extending the hammer to include those ~800 make sense? I am not sure (perhaps @Shog9 knows more - his analysis is stellar).

As for other extensions, I guess I cannot think of any. I like some of the proposals here, such as the increased voting totals for review which seems helpful, but overall (and hoping not to jinx anything) things seem to be running kind of smooth at the moment.