The Digital Goblin's tome

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

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

On Encountering prophecy

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

Tunnel-Mouth Observations of communion

Goblin testimony on communion is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe communion with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

The Goblin Verdict on tome

The goblin record-keeper, asked to file the final findings on tome, looked at the page, looked at the inkwell, looked at us, and very slowly wrote down a different word. The substitution stands.