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##Guessing the system is bad, but adding a system tag is not always guessing

Guessing the system is bad, but adding a system tag is not always guessing

I recognize that I'm challenging the consensus here, but in my opinion, if the question contains enough information to uniquely identify the system, adding the system tag to it is not out of line.

I've seen people say "don't guess the system" to someone adding a system tag to a question when the asker quoted the rulebook, with a page-number citation. That is ridiculous. I could confidently say that there is only one RPG where that exact quote appears on that exact page of the rulebook. Pretending that we don't know what system people are talking about because they didn't put it in a tag serves no one.

Add a system tag if:

  • The question has enough information to uniquely identify the system
  • You are confident enough in your own breadth of RPG knowledge to be sure that the question isn't about a system you've never heard of.
  • You are confident that the reason the system tag is missing is because the asker forgot it or didn't realize it was necessary.

##Guessing the system is bad, but adding a system tag is not always guessing

I recognize that I'm challenging the consensus here, but in my opinion, if the question contains enough information to uniquely identify the system, adding the system tag to it is not out of line.

I've seen people say "don't guess the system" to someone adding a system tag to a question when the asker quoted the rulebook, with a page-number citation. That is ridiculous. I could confidently say that there is only one RPG where that exact quote appears on that exact page of the rulebook. Pretending that we don't know what system people are talking about because they didn't put it in a tag serves no one.

Add a system tag if:

  • The question has enough information to uniquely identify the system
  • You are confident enough in your own breadth of RPG knowledge to be sure that the question isn't about a system you've never heard of.
  • You are confident that the reason the system tag is missing is because the asker forgot it or didn't realize it was necessary.

Guessing the system is bad, but adding a system tag is not always guessing

I recognize that I'm challenging the consensus here, but in my opinion, if the question contains enough information to uniquely identify the system, adding the system tag to it is not out of line.

I've seen people say "don't guess the system" to someone adding a system tag to a question when the asker quoted the rulebook, with a page-number citation. That is ridiculous. I could confidently say that there is only one RPG where that exact quote appears on that exact page of the rulebook. Pretending that we don't know what system people are talking about because they didn't put it in a tag serves no one.

Add a system tag if:

  • The question has enough information to uniquely identify the system
  • You are confident enough in your own breadth of RPG knowledge to be sure that the question isn't about a system you've never heard of.
  • You are confident that the reason the system tag is missing is because the asker forgot it or didn't realize it was necessary.
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##Guessing the system is bad, but adding a system tag is not always guessing

I recognize that I'm challenging the consensus here, but in my opinion, if the question contains enough information to uniquely identify the system, adding the system tag to it is not out of line.

I've seen people say "don't guess the system" to someone adding a system tag to a question when the asker quoted the rulebook, with a page-number citation. That is ridiculous. I could confidently say that there is only one RPG where that exact quote appears on that exact page of the rulebook. Pretending that we don't know what system people are talking about because they didn't put it in a tag serves no one.

Add a system tag if:

  • The question has enough information to uniquely identify the system
  • You are confident enough in your own breadth of RPG knowledge to be sure that the question isn't about a system you've never heard of.
  • You are confident that the reason the system tag is missing is because the asker forgot it or didn't realize it was necessary.