I believe it does. I wish we were back to an internet where none of that garbage existed. Because all that bringing voting systems and karma systems has done, is make people fret about what they say. Because it’s hard to tell sometimes if they’re saying it while focusing on the score they’ll receive after saying it, than they’re saying it and not do that.
And that even includes the ones who really have these systems go to their heads. Where, the higher karma count they’ve acquired, the more of a holier-than-thou attitude they possess.
The downside is that in competitive environments (ie, not lemmy), people tailor their comments to get upvotes and avoid downvotes. I’ve done it myself. Voting doesn’t avoid algorithms because people have their own in-built algorithms you can game.