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What, exactly, is the RAW tag for?
I'm not immersed in RAW, but I've been watching and listening and talking to folks about it for a long time. I'd like to offer my understanding of Rules As Written, as a tool and as a tag, so that ...
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A proposal for moving forward with Rules as Written
I have a modification to your proposal to make it compatible with how RAW works when it's functioning just fine.
This answer isn't an endorsement of the plan. Treat it as an "if this goes ahead, do ...
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Time to retire the [rules-as-written] tag?
We Need To Bring This To A Conclusion
I did not have a specific solution to propose during the last RAW debate and I said "sure, let's give it another try." But this has failed. The tag is still ...
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Should we add a [rules-as-written] tag warning, and what should it say?
Based on what Zachiel drafted up and Baskakov_Dmitriy's conclusions plus the What, exactly, is the RAW tag for? meta's answers, I suggest this as a possible tag warning:
Questions about the rules as ...
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What, exactly, is the RAW tag for?
This is incomplete
I don’t have a suggestion for the tag wiki at this moment. That will take a little more time; right now I just have some ideas about what the wiki should and should not look like. ...
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How to answer when GM Fiat is included in RAW?
Just answer RAW with RAW.
Most games explicitly or implicitly don't constrain their GMs to the RAW. But when someone is asking a RAW question, they are wanting to engage just with the game text and ...
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Time to retire the [rules-as-written] tag?
I agree with retiring the [rules-as-written] tag. Rules as written questions and answers on the site are fine and we as a community affirm they will always be welcome, but the tag sucks at its own job ...
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The [rules-as-written] tag - still useful or is it junk?
Burning the rules-as-written tag is extreme and would be damaging to the site; other, less drastic methods should be found to alleviate any problem behaviour arising from its over-broad use.
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A low-intervention approach [rules-as-written]: back to tagging basics
I like this idea! However, I do share concerns over our history of comments that leave a sour taste in folks' mouths.
I don't think it's an exaggeration to say this proposal may sink or swim on the ...
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Should we add a [rules-as-written] tag warning, and what should it say?
I think it is a good idea and I think it should read something like this:
A Rules-as-written question does not simply ask about the rules of a game. It implies finding out the most literal (even if ...
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Is there a tag for "Official rules problems"?
There isn't such a tag. 95% of what our site does is "official rules problems" and at that level it's not useful to have a tag. Several tags along the lines of "rules" or "mechanics" have been ...
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A proposal for moving forward with Rules as Written
OK, this is just patently absurd, and I cannot believe that this is what we have come to. I am just going to address the elephant in the room, because I believe that too much of this discussion has ...
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How to answer when GM Fiat is included in RAW?
People ask questions because they want answers. If we allow that the people asking the questions are experts in the things that they are asking about unless there's evidence otherwise, the number of ...
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A proposal for moving forward with Rules as Written
Don't rename the tag during the study
You say:
With a lack of clear data on intended use being a major sticking point in the recent discussion on the rules-as-written tag, we’d like to make a ...
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A proposal for moving forward with Rules as Written
Extend the timeframe beyond 1 month
I counted up the questions per month in the rules-as-written tag since it can be counted fairly quickly. (This doesn't cover tag removals and deletions but since I ...
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The [rules-as-written] tag - still useful or is it junk?
About other uses of tagging
Beyond the inherent scoping and, well, tagging value of the tag, I am also confused by this claim:
zero [value] from a searchability and SEO point of view clearly
This is ...
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Is there a tag for "Official rules problems"?
@doppelgreener's answer is right, but it's worth saying that some things can't be described by tags. If you care what exact sources solutions come from, you just need to say that out loud in your ...
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The [rules-as-written] tag - still useful or is it junk?
I would like to see evidence that the tag is misused.
As far as I can tell, the entirety of the alleged problem with the tag is the idea that it is used by people who don’t know what it means and don’...
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Does using the Rules as Written tag restrict answers to only using RAW?
The tag itself means nothing.
Using the rules-as-written tag means and does nothing. It is just a tag. It exists solely to categorise and describe the question based on content already found in the ...
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Time to retire the [rules-as-written] tag?
Don't rush to judgment
Because of its importance, I think discussion on this topic should continue beyond the current April 5 deadline to at least April 26. So far as I'm aware—and the moderators can ...
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A proposal for moving forward with Rules as Written
With respect to the fact there's some ongoing matters to discuss connected to this (Let's do that thing where we use our words), I'd like to suggest an alternate proposal for moving forward that ...
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Should we add a [rules-as-written] tag warning, and what should it say?
What is actually [rules-as-written]? We should find out!
Some time ago, being very new to the site, I tried to understand the nature of the rules-as-written tag. I did make a mistake (?) of marking my ...
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What Exactly Are the Classification Criteria for the [rules-as-written] Tag?
Recommendation: change your view of questions, edits, and ownership
It seemed to me that the tag itself is a collateral issue. There are so many metas already in place on that one tag - rules-as-...
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The [rules-as-written] tag - still useful or is it junk?
Since there seems to be no consensus on anything other than the fact that we have very little data about any supposed issues with rules-as-written because all the data is in comment discussions that ...
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Should the Rules As Written tag be renamed?
Unfortunately, a lot of the new users who wander into RPG.SE [...] aren't actually looking for a strict RAW analysis when they use the tag.
As usual, [Citation Needed]
Any renaming of the tag is ...
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Should we add a [rules-as-written] tag warning, and what should it say?
This site operates on a definition of rules-as-written that
Does not conform to its wider usage outside this site, and ignores the folk taxonomy
Was unilaterally determined by two members of the site
...
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6
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Time to retire the [rules-as-written] tag?
A modest proposal: link this Answer to the FAQ or [help]
One of the best treatments of what that RPG-centric topic covers that I've read, in terms of how to understand that term and apply it. I am ...
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Time to retire the [rules-as-written] tag?
The rules-as-written tag is used by people to mean three disjoint
things:
"I know this is crazy, don't tell me that; I want a legalistic loophole type exploit of the rules" (for example, ...
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Should the Rules As Written tag be renamed?
No, at least not yet.
As we have not yet put together a data driven basis from which to consider a decision, I'd suggest that the answer is no, at least not yet, since we collectively are still not ...
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