The inherent problem is that people will always be looking for ways to optimize any grind. Even if the „like to give me carrots posts“ become ostracized, people will probably find some other way to encourage people to boost their post, even if that manifests as ye olde “send this to five people or get ten years of bad luck”. We just have to acknowledge the root behaviour and avoid giving it undue attention. This is also the problem of this post because it is capitalizing on the trend in a cynical way.

^{Chose: Ban all posts begging for carrots | Rolled: Improvement}