<s>Another idea: why not downvote any "extra" answers to duplicate, closed questions? If the only thing certain users respond to is votes, then maybe a few downvotes are in order? Or, perhaps disallow voting on closed questions entirely?</s> After looking at the examples Diago cited, **I am not sure there is a problem.** > 1. [This](http://superuser.com/questions/103961/build-quality-of-laptops/103966#103966) > answer on a question closed as > subjective by the community caused > some interesting comments. > 2. [This](http://superuser.com/questions/104956/nda-and-contract-template-for-uk-closed) > question which is not computer related > has 1 answer. Common pattern here: > Vote to close and answer question. > 3. [This](http://superuser.com/questions/104641/what-is-your-favourite-file-copy-manager-replacement-for-windows-closed) > exact duplicate generated 1 high rep > answer. > 4. [This](http://superuser.com/questions/104080/what-sorts-of-things-can-i-do-with-ssh-on-the-iphone-closed) > question should have been closed > outright. > 5. [This](http://superuser.com/questions/103934/free-modeling-tool-closed) > is another multiple duplicate > question. None of these closed questions resulted in any significant rep, and the answers did not seem harmful. The one exception is the cut-and-pasted duplicate answer on #5. In this case, I think the (answer to the) closed question *should be deleted*, primarily **because of the blatant cut-and-paste rep gain**, which means any rep gained would be removed on recalc as well.