I'm working on a blog post about the problem of upvote begging. Usually, it's in the minority of users, although some websites don't explicitly enforce it well. (Case in point, Product Hunt makes upvote begging part of the status quo, which compromises the integrity of the site as a whole.)
Solve that, and you have much more traction to complain about what people should or shouldn't be doing.
Even then, two wrongs don't make a right. It comes down to luck, and sometimes it doesn't pan out. "Growth hacking" to correct bad luck is not necessarily ethical.
People are lazy, yes, but when there's monetary/reputation values tied to placement, the incentives change.
Anecdotally, new accounts are penalized too even if they vote from /newest (to prevent blatant vote manipulation via sock puppets)
That just seems like a silly thing to do. Especially since there's an obvious way around it.