Ladder of Social Feedback Mechanisms

Ladders ranking severity
Perhaps something like this, from least severe to most severe: Partly inspired by the pyramid diagram in Vsauce's video "the Science of Awkwardness" that ranks: Julia Galef has also written about something similar, consequences for speech: Maybe could also rank stuff like friendliness-unfriendliness/rudeness/harshness/hurtfulness, maybe also bluntness...
 * regular conversation
 * correction
 * criticism
 * ostracism
 * ridicule
 * hurtfulness
 * the legal system
 * military
 * self-consciousness
 * etiquette
 * laws of the state
 * laws of science
 * no consequences
 * individual social consequences
 * official social consequences
 * legal consequences

Ranking information content
Least content would be something like a simple "ur wrong!" without saying why. See "name calling" and Aggregation.