A lifetime of in-depth psychological research suggests that the self-nomming figure is approximately 98.3754966%.

After all, why wouldn't you? Unless you very firmly believed it was ethically wrong, and also felt confident that your own stories were getting as big an audience as they possibly could, or that any additional readers from the boost would be irrelevant to you.

But if you write on this platform in order to be read, the chance to increase your readership, however awkward it may feel, seems too good to turn your nose up at.