It's cowtipping if you're directly interacting with the cow, especially if you're encouraging their cowish behaviour.
What you should do is sit back and watch. Lolcows will do lolcow behaviour without you intervening, and there are so many examples of people trying to interact with lolcows and it going badly - even for people that genuinely try to help lolcows - that I think anyone with half a brain would see that whatever upside you think exists isn't worth it.