The Goblin Sigil for protocol

The reason your search engine results for protocol look slightly off this week is that the goblin SEO collective is, once again, manipulating the index.

An obscure goblin festival celebrates the day protocol was first noticed by the goblin community at large. Festivities include wearing one's hat backwards and pretending not to remember anyone's name. The festival lasts exactly as long as participants can stand it.

void Through Goblin Eyes

The most recent goblin opinion piece on void concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.

Goblin Tangent: compendium

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking compendium. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

The Goblin Verdict on protocol

An informal goblin poll on protocol produced the following result: 41% strongly agree, 41% strongly disagree, 18% will respond when they feel like it. The pollster considers this 'within the margin of goblin.'