I came across the question: How to get rid of white squares on method names? (in SublimeText3, Python). It was originally tagged with python and sublimetext3. Someone marked the Question as duplicate for: SublimeText encloses lines in white rectangles.
I initially missed the python tag and voted to close the question as the above mentioned Question looked like a right dupe target. Since I am having Gold badge in Python, this Question was dupe hammered. When I noticed that it is having python tag associated to it, I edited the question and removed the Python tag as it was irrelevant to the question.
But now I feel like I misused the privilege (gold badge power) offered to me. The ideal way to handle such scenario would have been to firstly remove the python tag and then vote for closing the question (Isn't it?). Since I have already (accidentally) dupe-hammered the Question, should I retract my vote? I think yes, because even though I feel like it is a good dupe target, there is possibility that I may be wrong as I am not an expert of SublimeText. Hence, closing a question with single vote isn't right.
But again, that's my point of view. I want to know the opinion of Community on how should one be dealing with such scenarios. In the mentioned Question, it is obvious that the linked Question is a right dupe target. But my concern is, what if the question was related to some much more complex issue? For example: Programming question, syntactical issue related to some other language. What should one be doing in such case?
