User:SOTO/Forum Archive/Inclusion debates/@comment-1272640-20170108002610

Looking through the archives, I noticed that the decision to exclude CYOA stories wasn't based on the four little rules: Forum:Decide Your Destiny and Find Your Fate are NOTDWU from here on out.

Instead, this was a decision based on coverage seemingly being too hard - which goes against our "no hard basket" policy.

The "debate" isn't one. At all. Two people came into the discussion having already decided something, and a single person agreed. And thus, such stories were set outside our fences in a decision that would not pass today. It's based on obsolete rules.

It also means that despite multiple reference works listing Attack of the Graske as an interactive episode and being just as much an episode as any other, we consider it invalid.

Let's go through the four little rules.

1. Are they stories? Absolutely. Even if they have multiple endings, they still have a narrative.

2. Are they licensed? Yes.

3. Are they officially released? Yes.

4. Were they intended to be set in the DWU? Yes! I've already used the example of Attack of the Graske above.

In short, the previous decision has no basis in the four little rules. The community didn't vote to exclude it. Two people decided this.

Essentially, I feel all CYOA-style stories need to be addressed.