Ecosystem

I've registered myself on The Truth Laid Bear's ecosystem. At the moment I'm a Crunchy Crustacean and am led to aspire towards life as a Lowly Insect. TTLB organizes its rankings on the basis of incoming links from other blogs on the ecosystem list. It also lists blog positions according to reader-traffic on its ecotraffic page. I plan to remove myself from the ecosystem once my dissertation is complete. My purpose in signing myself up is really to experience what effect the registration and evolution of my ranking has on my blogging. Will I be motivated to promote my blog in order to increase my ranking? Will I remain uncomfortable with the idea of this ranking system (or any ranking system for blogs for that matter) or will I find myself buying into it? Will I simply forget it's there? I'm interested to see.