Aesthetics of play (or individual preferences) and different GM techniques

[kyoryu]

Problem is, first you'd have to define railroading in a way that everyone agrees on. From what I've seen in the other thread, definitions and interpretations vary wildly. If there is no consensus on what the term means, you won't get any conclusive answers to questions depending on that term.

Then don’t use the term. Describe what you mean, and state where it would be useful or not.

In the other threads I’ve seen, people agreed that various concepts existed - what they disagreed on, mostly, was which piece of jargon to attach to which concept.