Actually, no.

To keep it simple, my belief could be summed like this : "Ranks hurt. Me or someone else."

And I don't want you hurt either myself or someone else.

Ignoring the rank would only take care of the part of the "myself" part. And BTW, that would be quite inefficient - I'd still see it.

I'm not some kind of Buddha who can look at things and be impassible. I would only be able to "try to not think about it too much", not able "to not think about it"

Putting aside my own part of the problem, I'm altruistic enough to be wanting to not spoil their game either.

I want my battles with my opponents to just have the actual battle as fun value. When either of me or them win or lose, I want it to be just that : a battle won by someone, with a possibilty of payback. That's what I call positive, harmless competition.

I don't want losses on either part to have further value. I don't want to ruin further their fun by undoing their rank. I don't want to ashame a player in Turf War, because I beat him on this encounter despite being "lower". I don't want to discourage someone to beat me one day because I'm "higher".

My ideal of fun relies on neither me nor my opponents even knowing about ranks.

I can't forbid players from knowing theirs if they trigger it on their part. I can't forbid player to follow what I esteem to be a masochistic path by keeping playing for ranks, and paly rank mode.

But I can forbid myself and others to know about my rank, to keep our encounters "pure", by playing Turf Wars only. And I want to believe that if people play Turf Wars at times, and not only during splatfests, that they sometimes have moments when they don't want to care about ranks.

So, even if it seems anecdotal, I think I'm making them a service to not remind them of ranks when they'll see me on their plaza after our battles... and maybe I could remind them what it feels like battling with someone, and keep that part of mystery about one's performances (good or bad), and without pride on the line.

Just for this opportunity to have the purest form of fun, for me, for them, I don't mind not playing all the game.

Actually, that'd be more disturbing for me to put on blindfolds, doing what I dislike, betray my own philosophy about gaming (and not only), just in order to play fully a game.

That would tell about the "strength" of my convictions and about how wrong I could be about myself. (I'd be exactly not what I'm saying to be).