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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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5 votes
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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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2 votes
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Gold Badger reopening a duplicated question to answer

I've seen a user with a gold badge doing the same behavior already twice, which is: reopening a straightforward duplicate question, just to answer it and with that receive some rep. The first time ...
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High quality question marked as duplicate of newer mediocre question

There's this 2009 question with nice answers, lots of views and nice answers: Calling virtual functions inside constructors It is marked as a duplicate of this mediocre 2013 question with one (...
Tomáš Zato's user avatar
4 votes
1 answer
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Bronze and/or silver tag badge holders should earn additional privileges, like weighted close votes

I recently earned the Java bronze tag badge. I was very happy. But then I thought, what privileges did I earn? I know that you can immediately close a question as duplicate if you have a gold badge ...
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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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