I encourage people to share their content elsewhere and ask for readers. In fact, I wish people did more of this!
But votes are meant to be one measure of how valuable a post was. Asking people to upvote a post they wouldn’t have upvoted otherwise is creating an artificial impression of value that isn’t backed up by how people really feel about the post. (Hopefully, if your post is good and someone reads it, they’ll upvote it without your needing to ask!)
No one should do this.
I encourage people to share their content elsewhere and ask for readers. In fact, I wish people did more of this!
But votes are meant to be one measure of how valuable a post was. Asking people to upvote a post they wouldn’t have upvoted otherwise is creating an artificial impression of value that isn’t backed up by how people really feel about the post. (Hopefully, if your post is good and someone reads it, they’ll upvote it without your needing to ask!)