- Spend time writting an EIP - Answer questions about it on the EthMagician thread, an update the coddument accordingly - Propose it for inclusion in two hardforks - Rejected because the core dev rank it low on their list without ever discussing it with the author. 1/2

I'm not saying the core devs want to discourage/revuls users from proposing protocol evolutions, and refuse to do anything that was not conceived by them or EF researchers... ... but if that is what they wanted, I'm not sure they could do a better job at it.