Conduct Classification Scale
The Institute for Applied Dignity maintains an official five-tier classification system for dignity-compromising attachment behavior. This document is the primary reference. Tier assignments are used across all case files, assessment instruments, and intervention protocols.
About This Document
This classification system was developed from field observation data compiled across documented cases. Tiers are assigned based on behavioral indicators, not intent. A subject may be classified at Tier III while genuinely believing their conduct constitutes normal social investment. The classification reflects behavior, not character.
Tiers are not sequential diagnoses. A subject may enter at any tier depending on the severity of the presenting incident. Escalation occurs when unaddressed behavior compounds. The Institute does not assign blame. It assigns tiers.
- Tier I Risk: Low
Isolated Signal Misclassification
IAD-TIER-I · No Active Pattern- Indicators
- One documented instance of false positive signal misclassification. Subject assigned romantic or relational meaning to an interaction with an objective, non-romantic explanation. No secondary behavior documented. The Notes application has not yet been opened for this purpose.
- Common Triggers
- Professional courtesy, service industry interaction, incidental name recall, group event attendance, low-friction digital contact interpreted as personal.
- Institute Finding
- The file is open but inactive. Subject is advised to review the Signal Classification Index before further interpretation of ambiguous social data. No intervention is required at this time. The Institute is watching.
- Tier II Risk: Moderate
Emerging Pattern
IAD-TIER-II · Pattern Confirmed- Indicators
- Two or more misclassified signals within a 30-day observation window. Subject has begun informal documentation: a screenshot archive, a dedicated notes entry, or a sustained verbal reporting pattern to a third party. Contact initiation has increased. The subject is monitoring for signals.
- Common Triggers
- Repeated low-friction digital contact, name recall events, recurring geographic proximity, ambiguous invitations, any interaction the subject has described as "different" or "not like the other times."
- Institute Finding
- A pattern has been established. It is not yet consolidated, but it is no longer isolated. The Institute recommends completion of the Simp Risk Assessment before the pattern advances to active resource allocation. Early intervention at this stage carries the highest recovery rate.
- Tier III Risk: Elevated
Active Resource Allocation
IAD-TIER-III · Dignity Risk Confirmed- Indicators
- Subject has performed unsolicited labor, provided material goods, or arranged logistical services on more than one occasion without explicit request. The subject attributes this to friendship or general goodwill. Privately, the subject expects romantic credit. The expectation is not stated aloud.
- Common Triggers
- Transportation to airports or other logistical destinations, technical assistance, food purchase, schedule adjustment performed in service of another person's convenience, emotional support rendered as a sustained and asymmetric practice.
- Institute Finding
- Resources have left the subject's possession without confirmed return. The gap between what the subject provides and what is acknowledged constitutes an active dignity risk. Form SS-404 is applicable. The Simp Risk Assessment is required. The calendar recognizes you. The relationship does not.
- Tier IV Risk: Critical
Pre-Paragraph Conditions
IAD-TIER-IV · Intervention Recommended- Indicators
- A multi-sentence unsent message exists in draft or notes form. Internal deliberation regarding contact has exceeded 72 hours. Subject may be timing outreach to appear natural, monitoring platform activity indicators, or updating personal presentation materials in anticipation of contact. Proximity has been engineered at least once.
- Common Triggers
- Non-response events interpreted as significant, ambiguous invitations with no confirmed logistics, any interaction that has been described to a third party as "a moment," a silence of three or more days characterized as "weird."
- Institute Finding
- Subject is in acute pre-paragraph state. The probability of a dignity-compromising communication within 72 hours is significant. Emergency Intervention is recommended. Do not send the message currently in drafts. The message will not accomplish what you believe it will accomplish.
- Tier V Case Transferred
[Classification Withheld]
IAD-TIER-V · Senior Review- Indicators
- Clinical Criteria
- The clinical indicators, diagnostic criteria, and outcome projections for this tier are not available in the public version of this document.
- Institute Finding
If you have been referred to this classification: you know. You have known for some time. The question the Institute cannot answer for you is what you do with that knowledge.
Case files at this tier are transferred to senior review. Recovery outcomes are not published.
The Institute has seen this before. That is all we are authorized to say.
Related Instruments
Tier assignments are cross-referenced with the following Institute resources.