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Comment author: [deleted] 05 May 2013 12:01:34PM 0 points [-]

I'd expect real unsafe assault threat creepiness to decrease while you're in a group from mitigation of the threat, while low status creepiness to increase.

“You” the creeper or “you” the crepee?

Comment author: buybuydandavis 05 May 2013 04:16:44PM 2 points [-]

You the creepee.

Comment author: [deleted] 06 May 2013 06:46:29PM *  1 point [-]

Wait... Why would you be more creeped out by a low-status person if they're your friend? If anything, I'd expect you to eventually realize that theirs is cluelessness rather than malevolence, and eventually get used to it. (I'm reasonably sure I'm more likely to low-status-creep someone I've just met that someone I've known for a while -- though I might just be insufficiently controlling for the relevant confounding factors.)

Comment author: buybuydandavis 06 May 2013 10:53:29PM 2 points [-]

Wait... Why would you be more creeped out by a low-status person if they're your friend?

I wouldn't. We have a clash of the imaginations.

In the scenario in my head, the Creep was never a member of your group, was an assault threat creep, and you may or may not be in a group. When you're in a group, you're safer from the creep, therefore perceived creepiness is diminished along with decreased feeling of threat.

Comment author: [deleted] 07 May 2013 11:18:44AM 0 points [-]

Yes, I got that, I was talking about the “while low status creepiness to increase” at the end of that comment.