The Do's and Don'ts of requesting up votes

At the point when IS IT OK TO ASK FOR A VOTE OR SELF-PROMOTE: 

• At the end of your own post--the readers came to see you. Encourage them to see more!
• If you are already in a dialogue about a subject you feel you have covered well and it appears there is a window for you to share because you think it will benefit the conversation, not because it will get you votes.
• If you have been very generous with your comments, votes, and resteems on a particular post, and you feel they might appreciate your work because it is in a similar vein (they may reciprocate as well)
• On the off chance that somebody explicitly requests guidance regarding a matter you believe you have secured well.
• You have officially settled some compatibility with another blogger you respect, and you might want their help on something you think merits a look. This clearly should be done sparingly, or you'll destroy your welcome. 

At the point when IS IT NOT OK TO ASK FOR A VOTE OR SELF-PROMOTE: 

• When you're a bot 
• When you’re arbitrarily clicking on posts, not reading them, and leaving copy/paste “vote for me” in the comments at random. This is tacky, immature, and lazy. And you won’t get anywhere with it. So stop it. For the love.
• When you comment on a post and out-the-gate draw attention to something YOU posted. This is tacky, desperate, upstaging and supremely annoying. You wouldn’t upstage people in real life, would you? So don’t do it here.
• When you exchange a small amount of a level of SBD into somebody's wallet so they'll see you in their exchanges, and you put "vote in favor of this post" in the update. This is a sob for help, and will be viewed thusly. You should be a telemarketer.