I often see questions, like this one that should be closed as they are very, very poor questions.

And because I expect this one to be closed or deleted, here are the question and comments so far:

Despite this obviously being a poor question, I see people post answers to bad questions like this all the time. On this thread, the answer answers the question in exactly the way we do not want encourage these questions to be answered. The answerer wrote a short script.

My take is the answerer sees a possible set of free reputation points, but the truth is we have not seen a benefit to either the original poster, nor the community.

I have in a few cases downvoted the answers, (it costs me reputation points, but it might help in the long run). But what is the best way to handle these answers to questions that should not be on Super User or really any Stack Exchange sites?

I often see questions, like this one that should be closed as they are very, very poor questions.

And because I expect this one to be closed or deleted, here are the question and comments so far:

Despite this obviously being a poor question, I see people post answers to bad questions like this all the time. On this thread, the answer answers the question in exactly the way we do not want encourage these questions to be answered. The answerer wrote a short script.

My take is the answerer sees a possible set of free reputation points, but the truth is we have not seen a benefit to either the original poster, nor the community.

I have in a few cases downvoted the answers, (it costs me reputation points, but it might help in the long run). But what is the best way to handle these answers to questions that should not be on Super User or really any Stack Exchange sites?

I often see questions, like this one that should be closed as they are very, very poor questions.

And because I expect this one to be closed or deleted, here is the question and comments to far:

Despite this obviously being a poor question, I see people post answers to bad questions like this all time. On this thread, the answer answers the question in exactly the way we do not want encourage these questions to be answered. The answerer wrote a short script.

My take is the answerer sees a possible set of free points, but the truth is we have not seen a benefit to either the original poster, nor the community.

I have in a few cases downvoted the answers, (it costs me rep, but it might help in the long run). But what is the best way to handle these answers to questions that should not be on SuperUser or really any SE sites?

I often see questions, like this one that should be closed as they are very, very poor questions.

And because I expect this one to be closed or deleted, here are the question and comments so far:

Despite this obviously being a poor question, I see people post answers to bad questions like this all the time. On this thread, the answer answers the question in exactly the way we do not want encourage these questions to be answered. The answerer wrote a short script.

My take is the answerer sees a possible set of free reputation points, but the truth is we have not seen a benefit to either the original poster, nor the community.

I have in a few cases downvoted the answers, (it costs me reputation points, but it might help in the long run). But what is the best way to handle these answers to questions that should not be on Super User or really any Stack Exchange sites?

I often see questions, like this one that should be closed as they are very, very poor questions.

And because I expect this one to be closed or deleted, here is the question and comments to far:

Despite this obviously being a poor question, I see people post answers to bad questions like this all time. On this thread, the answer answers the question in exactly the way we do not encourage these questions to be answered.

My take is the answerer sees a possible set of free points, but the truth is we have not seen a benefit to either the original poster, nor the community.

I have in a few cases downvoted the answers, (it costs me rep, but it might help in the long run). But what is the best way to handle these answers to questions that should not be on SuperUser or really any SE sites?

I often see questions, like this one that should be closed as they are very, very poor questions.

And because I expect this one to be closed or deleted, here is the question and comments to far:

Despite this obviously being a poor question, I see people post answers to bad questions like this all time. On this thread, the answer answers the question in exactly the way we do not want encourage these questions to be answered. The answerer wrote a short script.

My take is the answerer sees a possible set of free points, but the truth is we have not seen a benefit to either the original poster, nor the community.

I have in a few cases downvoted the answers, (it costs me rep, but it might help in the long run). But what is the best way to handle these answers to questions that should not be on SuperUser or really any SE sites?