Question: Reference: [this answer](https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/a/72685/149). Specifically, it ends with:

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> Please upvote , if it is making sense to your requirement. else elaborate more so i can make the answer to your question. :)
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Firstly, the question was not clear, and I did post a comment asking for clarification and voted to close as unclear. The linked answer above was an attempt to answer (which is fine, if you think you have a handle on the question), but I have a couple of problems with the final sentence:

* "Please Upvote" is unnecessary in an answer. I'm fine with nudging someone who forgets to accept an answer, but asking in the answer is effectively noise
* By asking for clarification so the answering user can try again, the user has basically admitted they don't know if they've understood the question.

Should we discourage "Please upvote" and similar? If so, how? I considered editing the answer, but I generally only edit another's work to fix formatting or correct spelling/grammatical errors that make it hard to understand a post.

Answer: 
In [this thread](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/194061/is-it-acceptable-to-ask-for-upvote-accept-in-an-answer-when-submitting-it) a couple years ago on meta.stackexchange, the accepted answer stated:

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> Not in the answer. The answer is reserved for... answering the
>  question. Any other content in an answer is just noise, and is subject
>  to removal.
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> If you must, put your humorous request for unicorn dollars in a
>  comment below the answer. I suspect, however, that such requests may
>  actually have the opposite effect of that intended.
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I agree with that approach and would encourage the removal of "please upvote" as a totally acceptable edit here. I would endorse that approach for other types of "noise" such as "Hi blah...", signatures, jokes, etc.
Back in the day of vBulletin forum software, *before the rep points system was introduced*, users often answered posts with "Please mark as Resolved".

Perhaps the user intended to say "Please acccept my answer, if this resolves the issue".