If you look at any of my other riddles, you'll see that they're woven as other media. Every bit of this is a clue, most of which constitutes multiple clues simultaneously. This is my best work so far. The title alone contains three clues and I even added a frankly hilarious link to an interactive clue.

It's called good writing. Look at any of my other riddles. You'll see mad ramblings, a hiring ad, and a fantasy novel excerpt as the top three. Doubt that there's an answer? Look at the others. My question with 47 upvotes had -4 or -5 before anyone understood it and upvoted.

@TravisKindred: I can't figure out whether to love it or hate it. I also thought it was spam, but given that you say it's actually a riddle...

I think my body of work proves me moderately trustworthy at the very least. I've been playing around with theme and genre in my riddles and I wanted to experiment with the Stack Exchange format. That's why I wanted to write a riddle with keyboard keys on it, because I couldn't find anything better to play around with.

I'm not saying I don't trust you; just that I'm very conflicted over your particularly... provocative style.

And that is a refreshing balance to a feast of feedback that would otherwise prove very 'American' in its sweetening.

Are you sure some of those words are spelled correctly? The word "glaukopic" doesn't return anything on Google.

It's a word manufactured for the riddle, just like "triticumized" in my more well known work. It's drawn from another term that google would turn up. There's a big hint I'll add if nobody guesses anywhere close within the next twelve hours.

Also, are you looking for a year, month, day...?

That could potentially be a giveaway. The time format will be abundantly clear once discovered, but I'll add an extra tip to be safe. There is just about zero math involved in the riddle. That's not meant to mislead. It's meant to help.

so here's the thing; your puzzles are really clever and all, but

they seem like the kind of thing that would be suited more for a forum than an SE website

like; I'm not even talking about scope here, I'm talking about format

the puzzles you make are the kind that will generate prolonged discussion while they're still being solved

where the discussion is actually part of the solution process

some puzzles will be like that; some SE questions will be like that on other sites as well

but I'd be wary of saying they should be a regularly accepted thing