Duplicate idea management: stop votes

Hi there

In communities everyone just comes in and creates their idea as if it is new.

This idea of mine might be a duplicate too.

Admins need to manage these duplicates.

They will find that duplicate and can do a few things about it:

1. merge into the existing idea (transferring votes)
2. set the duplicate idea to a “closed duplicate” status (or similar)
3. close the discussion, therefore redirecting the discussion to the existing idea

That sounds good, except there’s a big hole, people can still vote for the duplicate idea. This makes the merge process futile, you’ll come back a month later and have to “merge” again to transfer the new votes.

Can we please stop votes when an idea discussion is closed?

Mockup to illustrate the issue: