Please reconcile your obvious advice with jimrandomh's equally-obvious but opposite advice given here. Specifically, on the issue of whether I should have made a comment in this discussion that implicitly requests a response from Alicorn.

This is a fair point. Following jimrandomh's advice would imply never criticizing Alicorn's comments or posts. The letter of your "agreement" with Alicorn doesn't require that, but jimrandomh's advice does. I've upvoted this comment of yours and removed my upvote from jimrandomh's. (I hadn't upvoted kodos96's.)

Merely being you and criticizing Alicorn ought not to be counted as pestering by this community. (Of course, certain kinds of criticism can count as pestering. And context, such as the poster's identity, does count.)