Quote Originally Posted by Easy_Lee View Post
That's the question. In good faith, we have to assume the ruling of some anonymous person on Reddit is the ruling of a DM. Sage advice is at least on par with that. Is it above?
Yes. Of course, random commenters might make a convincing argument, but the interpretation of the game designers starts with additional weight in my book.

Quote Originally Posted by Easy_Lee View Post
I think of SA as default rulings. I guarantee no DM will follow every ruling on SA, but most DMs will probably follow most of them. In that regard, SA might be useful on forums to say "many DMs will rule it this way."

But SA should never be treated as RAW. And yet it is, because it's seen as RAI, and some people think RAI and RAW are the same.
Which is why we should do away with acronyms, and talk about what the books say, what we think that means, and what the designers have said about it.