patience. 

 cavalier attitude towards backwards compatibility and interoperability 

 CATBIC. 
because nerds live acronyms and cats. 

 DNM
drunk note mode. 
a quadratic equation must be solved before notes can be sent to relays. 

 the point of being decentralized would be to have no restraint
paradoxically there is a need to have some ground rules 
we had the 'reply guy' episode which was a pain

and there are still a lot of scammers (faking accounts) 
and spam (on common hashtags) ; some spammer accounts are impossible to block