Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-67.171.134.135-20150516003239/@comment-24891101-20150516033114

Practice and familiarity with the community is ultimately the answer. We can't really expect people to trawl through comments and threads looking for an answer. But for things like this, look in likely places. So here, the obvious places are the comments on Qrow's and Penny's page. There, you would have found the incident I mentioned.

For speculation of this sort, the best I can tell you is to take the idea, sit with it, and play devil's advocate. Things like the massive difference between weaponsmithing and creation of an artificial person, or the knowledge and credentials involvement in such would require are both fairly simple things that just a bit of thought could have disclosed. Also, make sure to fact-check before you post. Confirm that you have all the evidence (however circumstantial) that you think you do. And contend each piece of evidence in the same way as your entire argument, so that you can anticipate easy rebuttals, and winnow out the bad arguments.