I think it's about the potential of finding actual followers. Unlike the followback on Twitter, people here can actually read your stuff instead of just following you automatically. Among those bunch of followers you could get with the #payitforward tag, there could be some people who actually may be interested in your posts - the odds are high here.
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But how is that different than just clicking on someone's name if they made an interesting comment, and previewing their blog for stuff worth voting on? I do that all the time. Adding an artificial tag, to me, adds potential for low quality content and more vote begging. The idea of "payitforward" is built off of reciprocity:
That means, "Hey, I voted for you, you should vote for me." If you read books like Predictable Irrational, and Thinking, Fast and Slow, there's evidence to show these types of things actually adjust how we view something. We might think it's better than it actually is, simply because we're hard-wired to follow reciprocity. I'd prefer to work towards a meritocracy, not use psychological tricks.
Great points. My concerns are the same. Also we are kinda seeing this mob mentality of blindly upvoting known whales.
Indeed. When people vote up something because they think it will go viral and not because it's really good content, that's an unfortunately symptom of potential future problems.
Those are some really great points, actually.
^ I can't get myself to vote on what I see as poor quality content, even if they upvoted mine, because of a tag.