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Has there been some cultural development since I was last at these boards such that spamming "<steelman></steelman>" is considered useful? None of the things I have thus far seen inside the tags have been steel men of any kind or of anything (some have been straw men). The inflationary use of terms is rather grating and would prompt downvotes even independently of the content.
Those are to indicate that the stuff between them is the response I would give were I on opposing side of this debate, rather than my actual belief. The practice of creating the strongest possible version of the other sides's argument is known as a steelman.
They are not intended to indicate that the argument therein is also steelmanning the other side. You're quite right, that would be awful. Can you imagine noting every rationality technique you used in the course of writing something?
Just say "You might say that" or something. The tags are confusingly non-standard.
Huh. I thought they were fairly clear; illusion of transparency I suppose. Thanks!