Questions tagged [dupehammer]
"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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Adding additional targets on a duplicate is impossible on iPhone [duplicate]
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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Rule proposal: Duplicate closure to roll-up questions is no longer allowed
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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Are multiple close reasons provided if a question was single-handedly closed?
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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Let gold badge holders assign a duplicate, after already voting to close
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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Canonical question for new questions about importing data from Yahoo Finance into Google Sheets
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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Canonical question for importing content from dynamic websites using IMPORTHTML / IMPORTXML Google Sheets functions
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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Is it abuse to answer then dupe-hammer a question? [duplicate]
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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Close-voting and answering questions (and the dupehammer version of it) [duplicate]
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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Closing a question as a duplicate of 5 other questions that were all answered by the closing user
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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How can I show all the questions I closed as duplicate?
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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Should gold badge holders really be able to unilaterally reopen their own questions that are closed as duplicate? [duplicate]
An example of what I'm talking about (deleted).1
Screenshot of the relevant parts of the timeline for users <10k:
I've got the feeling that this should not be possible. As the OP, I'm clearly ...
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If I close question A with question B and B has an answer from me or if I linked to it in the comments under A; then B gets added to my saves
I've found a new bug today. When I hammer a page close using a post where I've already posted an answer, there is an automated prompt that tells me that the page was added to my Saves.
If I hammer ...
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How can we prevent "close/opening wars" between gold tag badge holders around possible duplicates with only-code-no-explanation answers?
I have seen many cases of questions closed as duplicate by a gold tag badge holder that later are reopened by other tag badge holders that have answered those questions with code-only-no-explanation-...
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Gold tag badge holder closed a question as a duplicate, community voted to reopen, but then closed again for the same reason?
Years ago, I asked a question that is now probably one of the top search engine results if you search for anything related to pointer size in C++. It's a 10 year old question which still gets ...
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Etiquette on tag-change + close, based on a different question, with a similar explanation/answer
So 13 months ago I was tripping over escaping a string just right to get a regex working. The question was posted, and I got an answer which helped me figure out what I did wrong. SO FTW.
Fast-forward ...
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