This guy has been attacking me for the past few days. I retaliate with stronger force, so he alerts me. Problem is, because he didn't manage to disable me, just hit my traps, I can't alert him in return. I see a problem with this. If someone has been eating traps you should be able to alert them for attacking you.

just part of the game.
life isn't fair and neither is this game!

you could just let it go and fall off the alerts. If he's a putz who can't get it done, be happy to have him waste energy on ya for the FAIL i think.

Tripping artis is annoying i admit but if you're not raping him most legions dont bother responding to alerts about a single kill n disable as it were.