Zed comments on Distracting wolves and real estate agents - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Zed 08 July 2011 07:27:11AM 2 points [-]

Technically, when you avoid being ranked you don't avoid being ranked entirely. See Marx's Laws Of Status Illegibility

It's intuitively sensible because even if you're unranked you know you're not the Alpha, therefore you have some sort of rank. You'll probably still have to play some status games.

Comment author: JenniferRM 10 July 2011 07:37:15PM 0 points [-]

Zed, thank you for that link! I wish I could vote this up to 20. That ribbonfarm post goes deeply into the topic, but more than that, the whole blog itself is a goldmine that I didn't even know existed.