Selling your vote? Kinda trashy. Like, meth riddled trailer park whorey.
Getting paid by someone for you to spend your time going through the target's active blog posts and comments and then giving a 100% upvote to your favorite of the lot? That's not selling your vote, that's selling your time and energy. Essentially the user becomes not a customer, but a client.
(bots get an exception, cause their bots. Except @gentle-bot, that one has an interesting methodology)
gimme some meth, I mean upvotes, oops!
Lol, did @gentle-bot just learn how to stroke its own ego? Or did you just figure out how to get a @gentle-bot vote? ...Are we witnessing the rise of self up voting bots? IS @gentle-bot ACTUALLY SKYNET??? Holy crap I just freaked myself out there....
None of the above. I happened to get a comment Upvote about a week ago and looked into how he worked. Thought it was kinda neat.