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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 badge reopening a duplicate that I believe shouldn't be reopened [duplicate]

I asked Should these two questions (one duplicate of the other) be inverted? last summer. Tl;DR: 2 questions, A duplicate of B, but A has way more vote/view than B. Answer from moderator: duplicate ...
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What can be done if a question that was closed by the review process is re-opened by a Gold Badge holder incorrectly?

After reading through this existing question; Restrict Mjölnir privilege when voting to re-open a question that was close-voted by multiple users Feel this needs some discussion, just had a ...
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Abusing tag edits

Is there some system/control about users adding tags to questions they answered to? Timelines (I'll use python to illustrate): Abusive dupehammer: python gold badge user adds a python to a java ...
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Dupe-hammered questions show the wrong badge [duplicate]

I came across this question which was dupe hammered by Jon Skeet: The choice to display the eclipse gold badge is surprising, considering that the question also has the higher-priority java tag, and ...
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Should I use my dupehammer superpowers to close a question about things I have no idea but OP said it's a duplicate?

I have javascript dupehammer superpowers. This question has javascript tag, but it's about angularjs, about which I have no idea. The question was flagged as a duplicate of this other question by @...
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Gold badge superpowers inappropriate for language tags?

I only recently found out I had certain super-powers thanks to my c# language tag gold badge. Apparently this is because the system thinks that I am an expert on questions with this tag, and therefore ...
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When did I get close-vote superpowers?

I just marked this question as a duplicate all by myself. I am not a moderator and I don't think this should be possible. Did I miss something?
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