A note about your links:

NO, they appreciate it.

I understand that quite differently.

The way I understand him, he considers it an effort when a user votes himself into the trending.

The fact that it is explicitly desired or that there is a request to vote for yourself, as you have said several times now, I can't read anywhere.

These two statements of @Birdinc are not clear enough to deduce that it is explicitly desired to vote yourself.

The other statement refers to ZAPATA.