Questions tagged [dupehammer]
For questions about the ability of gold tag badge holders to unilaterally close and reopen duplicates which were asked in tags of which they have a gold badge, and for them to edit the duplicate targets of such questions.
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Questions tagged with a synonym of a tag and closed by a user with a gold badge for the master tag incorrectly show the synonym in the close notice
The situation is very likely related to Questions migrated to localized meta sites get the [discussion] tag in English even if it's synonymized to the localized tag equivalent
But in this case ...
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Unable to edit the duplicate list
I have the javascript dupe hammer on SO. I closed Uploading image file to php server as a duplicate earlier today, and I was just trying to edit the duplicate list to add a more appropriate question.
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What are differences between synonyms with and without merging from the practical point of view?
It is well-known that creating a synonym and merging two tags are two completely independent actions1 - sometimes a synonym is created and the tags aren't merged, sometimes two tags are merged without ...
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Can I voluntarily cast a single close vote despite having a gold badge? [duplicate]
Voting to close as duplicate can be done by gold-badge owners without requiring votes from other people ("dupehammer"). This is often sensible and useful. However, is it possible to ...
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Don't give dupe-hammer for special tags
All 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 ...
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Remove tag badges or dupehammer on moderator-only tags [duplicate]
Many people have tag badges or the dupehammer for moderator-only tags. I think this is a problem since it defeats the whole point of being an "expert" in a tag, since these tags only tell ...
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Duplicate selection doesn't allow to pick an item without searching
When you are a mod or a gold-badge and you want to edit the list of duplicates, the standard model shows suggested questions. One cannot pick any of them and has to search for a suitable question ...
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Suspended users can edit the duplicate list if they have the dupehammer, for a small period after getting suspended
For several hours after being suspended I could press the Edit button on the duplicate banner, enter the duplicate target dialogue, and then add and remove duplicate targets from the duplicate list.
I ...
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The return of the tag-badges exploit
The tag-badges exploit was an old exploit in Stack Exchange: at the time, a total of 1000 votes across all your answers on a tag would give you a gold tag badge for that tag. This lead to an edge case ...
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Unable to edit duplicate lists from the first questions review queue, after closing a duplicate question
As a gold tag badge holder, I have the ability to unilaterally close questions (with those tags) as duplicates and, by extension, I also have the ability to edit the duplicate links on those questions....
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Add keyboard shortcut for editing the list of duplicates
Users with a gold badge in a tag are able to edit the list of duplicates for a question. There are no keyboard shortcuts defined for this. For example, a rather routine task is to close a question ...
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Should there be a lower threshold for getting gold tag badge, on less popular tags?
A gold badge for a tag gives a user additional review power, to help manage low-quality questions having that tag.
At https://stackoverflow.com/help/badges?tab=tags&filter=gold, we see that there ...
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Gold-badge duplicate hammers don't appear to check tag synonyms as far as I can tell; is this so, and should it be fixed if so?
From my research, it appears that if a user has a gold badge for a tag A, and a question is tagged with a tag B which is a synonym of A, the user won't be able to bindingly close as a duplicate ...
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A user answering duplicate questions and dupe-hammering them afterwards [duplicate]
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. I didn't think much of it until recently:
I ...
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Does notification in comment work for gold tag badge holders if they are not the only person that reopened/closed a question? [duplicate]
The answer for the question How do comment @replies work? states the following:
For questions: The moderator or gold badge holder who closed or reopened the question, provided they were the only one ...
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