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.
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.
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.
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.