Starting an argument sounds good to me. The less positive a general reaction is to upvote begging, the less people will want to upvote beg again.
If you get banned for calling out a repost or upvote beggar, it’s because the maker of that meme is the biggest snowflake on the planet. Imgflip doesn’t care what you comment. If some guy flags it, they’ll approve it because the mods don’t know the situation at all.