I'm only going to make a single point for the moment, but you yourself have admitted to having an active role, with many different options at your disposal. That's the antithesis of neutral. Granted, you claim you did this on purpose to subvert expectations as to what a neutral can be, and if that's true, well then, I do salute you, but I think we're just not receptive to it, because I don't buy it and I don't think anyone else does. That's just not how neutrals operate, and you claiming to behave this way could simply be "a likely story". I mean, it's basically your Loki gambit (I know I've said that about a lot of things recently), and I got burned by that. Fool me once, as they say...