@NEETzsche @Looming

> I'm aware that you don't like this perspective

I think you have again failed to model what I think.

> I am perfectly comfortable working under gentleman's agreements in these scenarios

If you're talking about what I think you're talking about, the only context in which I've heard you start babbling about "gentlemen's agreements" and "cat and mouse games", there's "etiquette when participating in a network" and there's an actual agreement. In my view, it's poor form to shoot down someone's drone, but it's also poor form to make your drone buzz your neighbor's sleeping dog. So you buzz someone's dog a few times and then they shoot down your drone and you appeal to etiquette and they laugh and then you pull the conversation back to that repeatedly because you didn't like the answer you got. I don't know if you expect us to cover any new ground here, but we won't if you're going to do your usual thing of repeating your complaints and never listening.

> one should know that it's an unenforceable gentleman's agreement

An agreement requires two parties. Conventions require only general consensus among the people that were here when you arrived, and etiquette is a matter of convention. There are conventions on this network about bots; I say I don't like the bots that constantly repost images from elsewhere (anime butthole bots, 4chan mirror bots) and that post public frequently, especially if they do it on the hour, contributing to the :00 bot stampede, but the convention is that there are repost bots spamming TWKN all the time.

> I hate playing those kinds of cat and mouse games, which you would be signing up for in trying to automate detecting bot behavior.

All I said was that I think forcing bots to unlisted is reasonable to do, but that it assumes well-behaved bots, and that I have no plans to do so. Do you disagree with any of that?