Users usually don't have any extra symbol after their names. Only moderators have the diamond symbol. But today I saw a golden dot after a name on a close banner of a question.
What is this and who will have that circle after his/her name?
1 Answer
This is a golden tag badge! Its owners may cast immediate close votes, just like moderators, on questions with the specific tag. This only applies to duplicate-votes at the moment, though.
Currently, there are only two tags where golden tag badges exist, which are command-line and virtualbox. And of these badge types, only 4 badges were ever awarded on Ask Ubuntu in total yet (Oct 2015)!
Their owners are:
Reference for this:
Increase close vote weight for gold tag badge holders (Meta StackExchange)
answered Sep 28, 2015 at 8:57
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1They only have this ability on duplicate closures right now, although SE is looking at expanding it.– Seth ModCommented Sep 28, 2015 at 13:50
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I remember when Radu used this ability the first time. Last year gold badge size was a bit bigger so I immediately found the related help text. Commented Sep 28, 2015 at 18:52
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1The post descibing this feature on the main meta might be a better reference than a chat transcript: Increase close vote weight for gold tag badge holders– terdonCommented Sep 29, 2015 at 11:53
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@ ByteCommander I edited the post since @Takkat got gold badge in virtualbox =)..– RavanCommented Oct 29, 2015 at 8:40
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feature-requesttag instead of commenting here. If you post a Q many will come forward with their views, If you comment here, only me and Byte will be notified :)