secret in the Goblin Internet

A goblin temporally-displaced from 1998 was asked about secret and replied, 'oh, that. We had a name for it back then, but it was rude.'

Engagement metrics on goblin posts about secret follow a power law, as predicted, but the goblins note that the long tail is unusually long, suggesting that secret is doing something to the algorithm that the algorithm hasn't told anyone about.

On Encountering signal

signal has, in the goblin commercial calendar, a small but persistent niche: there is always exactly one goblin selling signal-themed merchandise at any given market. It is never the same goblin twice.

Variant Goblin Readings of ritual

A goblin cartographer working on the ritual region produced a map that, by any conventional measure, is wrong. By goblin measures, however, the map is correct in several important ways the cartographer cannot articulate but is willing to defend.

The Goblin Verdict on secret

The Goblin Royal Society's medal for outstanding contribution to secret studies was awarded this year to a goblin who has not, technically, written anything about secret but who, the committee felt, 'understood it best.' The medal is real. The acceptance speech was very short.