I expect we'll have to agree to disagree on this, but there's a case to be made that it objectively damages you.

Consider this question on Quora: http://www.quora.com/Why-did-DuckDuckGo-block-Mahalo-com

You are one of the closest conceivable people to the question, and your answer got downvoted because it was ostensibly broken English, which made it look spammy (and thus, kind of ironic)