Mestroyer comments on Email tone and status: !s, friendliness, 'please', etc. - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Mestroyer 04 May 2014 03:27:11AM 3 points [-]

My impression is that they don't, because I haven't seen people who do this as low status. But they've all been people who are clearly high status anyway, due to their professional positions.

This is a bad template for reasoning about status in general, because of countersignaling.