Goblin Etiquette When Confronted by protocol

Look, I'm just transcribing. The goblins dictated this article about protocol in shifts. Any errors are theirs. Any insights are also theirs. I am simply the secretary.

The goblin board's investment thesis on protocol 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.

Goblin Recursion Into content

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the content-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

The Goblin Council on archive

A goblin who lived near the archive site for many years was asked, late in life, what they had learned. The reply, transcribed verbatim: 'It got quieter. So did I.'

The Goblin Verdict on protocol

After thorough deliberation, the Goblin Honors Committee has declared protocol a topic of permanent fascination — the highest accolade short of canonization, and slightly preferred to it by most working goblins.