Making Rank, Anonymous Style.

Every organization has ranks, those who lead, and those who follow. Anonymous is an exception. Except its not.

In the military, Rank is derived from education, experience, time in service, and job performance. You make the prerequisites to enlist or attain a commission, and then you gain rank based on job performance over time. In the corporate world it is mostly the same. The greater the job potential, the higher the initial prerequisites. Rank is earned in the form of job titles, promotion, pay, and benefits.

So how does one gain "rank" in Anonymous? First you must show great aptitude with the technology. Much like street cred, if you do nothing, you earn nothing. Each day dozens of people make "Anonymous" videos and presentations. Suggestions, messages, orders, propaganda, etc. The better the video, or post, the more influence it attains. You must make a good presentations, you must present good ideas, relevant ideas. It takes creativity, ingenuity, and a good use of technical skill. Those with good information, good presentations, draw attention. Those with shoddy videos and posts full of irrelevant or erroneous data draw no or even negative attention.

Ie, one individual posted a video claiming that Anonymous needed to elect a central head or representative, his idea was quickly booed down by those who believed that his idea was flawed or even possibly dangerous. (IE, the poster was an enemy infiltrator trying to spread dangerous ideas) Another random individual may suggest a protest (Possibly local, possibly even international) on a specific date that is relevant to Scientology, a supposed travesty (The death of a COS critic) or the locale (The day a Scientology center opened). His idea gains credibility, the collective agrees with the message. People unify and coalesce, the protests are organized. The protests occur. An anonymous leader is born. His other ideas gain more attention, more posts potentially follow, as long as the individual keeps up the quality of his ideas, and the quality of his posts, his influence will spread.

Its a full out democratic organization, where the leaders are not leaders by appointment or election, but based on their ability to motivate and mobilize the collective, and their ability to grasp the key technologies inherent to the mission.