At [Why is the result of this for and while loop different? [duplicate]](http://unix.stackexchange.com/q/164432/89316) (and that's just an example), I've voted to close the question as a duplicate.

But because of my reputation on the [tag:shell] tag, that question has been closed straight away with the _"Users with the [shell] gold badge can single-handedly mark [shell] questions as duplicates"_ message.

I don't like it for several reasons:

 - I'm not aware of all the questions posted around here. I know (and sometimes manage to remember) about the ones I've answered, so that's the ones I will typically suggest as duplicate. There may be better ones. So there's an unfair bias here toward high-rep users I'd say.
 - When I click _close_, I do mean _suggest to close_ or _vote to close_. I like that being reviewed by others, including the OP who may want to edit the question to clarify why his question is different.
 - When I see _"Closed by John Doe"_, my reaction is _"Who's that John Doe, who does he think he is?"_, while when I see _"Closed by John Doe, user2, user3, user4..."_, even if I don't agree, my reaction is _"fair enough, it's been closed through a democratic process by several people who cared to consider the relevance of the question"_.
 - I don't know which tags I have a _gold_ badge for, nor want to have to check what were the original tags in the question, so I don't know when "close" is a _close_ or a _vote to close_.

On Unix.SE, that's aggravated by the fact that half the questions are initially tagged as [tag:bash] or [tag:linux], while most of the time, they're really about neither, but more about [tag:text-processing], [tag:terminal], [tag:gnu], [tag:files], [tag:shell-script], [tag:debian]...

Some are re-tagged properly, and that means the original tag (like `bash` (I don't even use that shell and I've got a gold badge on that!)) is no longer visible, which makes the UI even more misleading.

That example above is quite typical. The question was a FAQ, it's a very common issue. I've seen countless similar questions on usenet, and a few on SE as well. It's a shell question, but it's a problem caused by `ssh`, so tags don't help. Searching for them is not easy. I've _voted_ to close as a duplicate of the first one I found.

So, is there a way to relinquish one's right to close questions single-handedly (other than by creating a separate user as I just did)?

Alternatively, could the interface please be changed so the "close" link becomes a "**close!**" one, or some other way like a different colour or confirmation dialog to make it clear that the question is going to be single-handedly closed.