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I agree with your feedback that discussing the different suggestions of how to implement the status-increasing elements to specific marketing strategies in greater detail would have made the post more practical.
As for your thoughts on whether EA marketing strategies need improvement - I think EA’s lack of consistent viral success is not so random, I think it’s at least partly the result of abstaining from using some of the marketing strategies that have been considered belonging more to the “dark arts” category Halffull mentions. I agree with Halffull her...
It seems that we disagree about to what extent people’s motivation to pursue status (well-earned or not) guides our behavior - I don’t think the status raising effects are secondary to real accomplishment, but I think that the status raising effects are an important underlying reason in our pursuit to accomplish anything at all.
I agree that some ways of receiving status are more legitimate than others, that it’s important for EA to focus on legitimate status, and that it’s more important to have a good argument than to wear a suit. But because all humans... (read more)