As a clarification: I don’t think “here are some good effects that would come out of getting lots of upvotes” would count as such an argument.
I am now feeling like the legitimate use cases for such arguments might be narrow enough, and their benefits small enough, that it might be better to have a norm that disallows them, for the sake of being a cleaner rule. Or maybe it should be okay to make arguments so long as you explicitly cancel any implicature that you’re asking people to upvote? Confused about what’s best here.
As a clarification: I don’t think “here are some good effects that would come out of getting lots of upvotes” would count as such an argument.
I am now feeling like the legitimate use cases for such arguments might be narrow enough, and their benefits small enough, that it might be better to have a norm that disallows them, for the sake of being a cleaner rule. Or maybe it should be okay to make arguments so long as you explicitly cancel any implicature that you’re asking people to upvote? Confused about what’s best here.