I've read countless posts on begging for upvotes and follows but sadly every day I log in I still see people doing it. I saw one analogy that was used to describe upvote begging. The person asked if we would stop a random stranger on the road to ask for money. Many answered in the negative. Then he asked why is upvote begging in steemit any different, since we do not go about asking people for handouts or money, why then do we do it on steemit? The thing I think is most joined here with the wrong mindset and assumed you could just go around and ask for upvotes and get upvotes for doing nothing. I won't be surprised to see later someone in this same comment ask for upvotes!
I do not think you are alone on this as many find it distasteful too. Thanks a lot.
Well-stated.
There’s probably the “keyboard warrior” thing in effect here too - it’s easier to just spam comments everywhere loosely rather than look a person in the eyes face to face and ask.
Surprisingly, there haven’t been any upvote requests yet! Maybe the message actually got through this time. :-)
I'm surprised too, at least it proved the spammers do read too!