There are comparable numbers of people defending Bob and defending Alice, which suggests the truth fetishists (of which I am not one) may not be sizeable enough to stand for all people here.

I was paying attention to upvotes but those seem to have evened out since I wrote that.

As I pointed out in my first comment, since Alice determines the success or failure of Bob's strategies, she can decide to turn any strategy he tries into a failure).

The part where Bob looks at fault is when he keeps repeating the strategy that has already failed.