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.

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It more often than not brings a hive mind kind of behavior into a platform. It’ll also influence what someone wants to write because they might think “if I say this or that, x might happen”. I think it also influences someone’s thoughts if they see already huge upvotes or downvotes.

It is the very reason I have disabled the up/downvote thing on Lemmy. I don’t see any karma and I don’t care about it either. Especially not on Lemmy.

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