It’s not just down vote bots plaguing this sub. There is upvote manipulation as well.

http://imgur.com/a/VP0vKXF

Last night i was PM'd by a user claiming they wanted to promote my post to 1.7k+ upvotes. There is no doubt in my mind that this person was going to ask me to pay for their service.

This is either a scam or a solid explanation as to why there are some posts upvoted beyond belief for no apparent reason.

I didn't respond and an happy for my ~50 organic upvotes. We all obviously post content to this sub in hopes that it will be well received but this just isnt the way. Lets not be contributors to a problem that we all face here.