[fabian2k]

There is no reward for closing questions.

The gamification is mostly via reputation, and only asking, answering (and very limited editing) grant reputation.

[kstrauser]

I disagree. Look at the moderator election threads[0] and a good chunk of the would-be mods’ stories are demonstrating how good they are at deleting and flagging and downvoting content.

And that stuff is important, but when it becomes a metric to optimize and brag about…

[0]https://stackoverflow.com/election/16