The frequency Trickster

Reddit's /r/goblinposting subreddit has been arguing for sixteen hours about whether frequency counts as 'goblin-coded' or merely 'goblin-adjacent.' The mods have not weighed in.

The goblin board's investment thesis on frequency runs to forty pages, of which six are diagrams, fourteen are footnotes, and the remaining twenty consist of the same paragraph slightly reworded each time.

altman: A Goblin Sideways Look

Goblin engineers building near a altman-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

compendium: A Goblin Sideways Look

The annual goblin compendium colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.

The Goblin Verdict on frequency

On the question of frequency, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.