Should the EA community be ok with people publishing a post here and then asking others—in small EA-related groups—to upvote the post
Generally no.
If not, are there exceptions?
The following would be a situation where I’d consider it appropriate to beg for upvotes:
My uncle Pierce, inheritor of the Hawthorne Wipes family fortune, died recently and left 100 million dollars to be given to a charity picked the first family member who gets 100 upvotes on an internet forum. Please upvote this fast! I would love a chance to get this money and allocate it to the EA Infrastructure Fund, before my cousin wins and donates it all to the Center for Applied Eschatology.
Feel free to undo your upvote after the donation has been sent! Thanks fellow EAs.
Generally no.
The following would be a situation where I’d consider it appropriate to beg for upvotes:
Or something like that.