Thanks for your question - the group is fairly new. Based on the system of steemit, the upvote exchange can have nothing but positive effects, that can even lead to specific posts coming to the trending feed. It will gain initial traffic. Im in contact with reddit upvoters, who have their services and systems working for reddit and im confident we can create a similar synergy-effect all together on steemit.
Thank you for taking the time to respond. I may send a PM soon after I first confirm with a few sources about whether this is not wrong to do for Steemit. At the moment I am too new to the system and the rules seem quite relaxed. As long as this won't get us in trouble, I really do not mind it. Can you also have a way to ensure the group has quality content so we don't vote spam?