The Digital Goblin's protocol

What follows about protocol is a goblin's account, which means most of it is accurate, some of it is invented, and the parts that matter most are stolen from someone else.

The recommendation algorithm a goblin built — out of stolen parts and one functioning regex — currently surfaces protocol as the optimal hook for the 11pm-to-2am attention slot, the goblin doom-scroll prime time.

conspiracy: A Goblin Sideways Look

In the goblin underground, conspiracy is approached the way one approaches an unfamiliar lock: slowly, with curiosity, and with several backup plans for when the obvious approach doesn't work. Goblins are surprisingly patient about this. They have, after all, the time.

The Goblin Verdict on protocol

Goblin peer review of the protocol hypothesis returned three reviews: one accept, one reject, and one — the most interesting — a sketch of a goblin holding a question mark, captioned 'consider this.' The editors went with accept.