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"The Dupehammer", also known as Mjölnir, refers to the ability of tag gold badge owners to unilaterally close and reopen duplicates which were asked in tags of which they have a golden badge.

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My understanding is that the implementation of free votes is such that any of the effects of normal (privileged) up/down-votes will apply, unless the dev team explicitly changes the logic to make that ...
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We have a very old post from 2011 regarding why the bitwise operators | and & have lower precedence than the equality operators ==, != here: Operator precedence (bitwise '&' lower than ...
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This question DateTime Format gives me a different time was voted on four times as a duplicate. Three of those votes had the c# gold badge. The tags on the question were not edited. Why did it take ...
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I closed the question in Staging Ground as a duplicate. Because I have a gold badge, the question has been closed immediately and has obtained the banner This question already has an answer here: ...
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After using dupe hammer on this post, I noticed a weird auto-generated comment popping up, attributed to me: This question is similar to: srand() — why call it only once?. If you believe it’s ...
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The dialog box for adding more URLs to the list of originals on a duplicate Question is much too wide on an iPhone. It is physically impossible to complete that dialog box. Pasting the URL of an ...
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There is a long-festering problem in some tags where some questions are closed by dupehammers, using a single roll-up question as the duplicate target. A "roll-up" question is defined here ...
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I came across the following post and revisions: command won't add roles to the user https://stackoverflow.com/posts/77107942/revisions It was closed by two users, one with the ability to single-...
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If a gold badge holder for a tag votes to close a question normally, and then later discovers a duplicate of it, can they be allowed to "cast a second close vote" as a duplicate? In the &...
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Follow-up of Canonical question for importing content from dynamic websites using IMPORTHTML / IMPORTXML Google Sheets functions Recently I have found that many "bad" questions about ...
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In How to flag dozens of almost identical answers I have mentioned that I have found dozens of "bad" questions from people having problems importing content from dynamic websites using ...
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I recently came across this answer in the Reopen Queue. A gold badge holder answered the question (which went on to be accepted and gain a lot of upvotes), then exactly one minute later dupe-hammered ...
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I am questioning some users' behavior and the way SO works. Let's take the following examples: A user votes to close a question (for whatever reason) then posts an answer to that question A user ...
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Today, I answered a question which later got closed by a user with the Gold Badge, as a duplicate of 5 other questions, which were all answered by that close-voting user. While I understand not every ...
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I hold the gold badge of pandas. I can flag a post with this tag as a duplicate and close it immediately. Is there any way to view all of them? I checked the All actions page where I found lists of my ...
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