I go with two very different options, maybe even opposed!
The first of which, PERSUASION & GUILE, should not be that surprising. Besides being Zack's trick, it's also intriguing for being a mind challenge! Knowing that it is the dom's goal to gag you, it would be a game for anyone, I think, to see how far they can stretch their time. To calculate your every word, search for double, triple, quadruple meanings before speaking anything out... Perhaps you'd be good enough to stretch a capturer's patience dry and with that, maybe even escape a gag! Ethan might be more straight forward, but I don't think a well experienced, very charismatic dom like Zack would step down to brute force, should anyone outwit him. But, even I, who considers myself quite a ponderer and a bit of a manipulator in the talking department, wouldn't go that far and say that I'd be able to escape one of the two presented capturer's word tricks. Worst case scenario, I might drag the process out so much that I earn myself a worse gag!
And the second option, BRUTE FORCE & SILENCE! As I've said, at the complete different end of the spectrum compared to the first one. I don't think that they tie in to one another, though. For the first one, I just like a smooth talk, and for this one, I just find brute force hot. Nothing more!
You could consider this one the most flavorless of the three options in which a gag is forced in, but for me, this comes down to personal preference. The trash-talk element of the second one really throws me off. Gagging someone already means you have complete control over them; they already know they're helpless, why go out of your way to point it out? I can get behind one or two comments and flexes in which there's pity in the form or irony, like: " haha, sorry for that" or "poor you", but that's about as far as I would go, even though I can see why some people would choose that one. As for the authority option, I think it speaks more for the more submissive types of subs who get a kick out of obeying. Considering my more bratty kind of behavior, it would always come down to a forcefully imposed gag and maybe even a punishment!
So no, but, yet again, I can see why people would vote that