User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-26285319-20170104192003/@comment-1789834-20170305035710

Okay, I understand your stance. Let's get this back on track. The proposed Rule 4 was: "Those things which don't have the permission of all relevant copyright holders, or those which were never meant to be continuous with the established DWU, are excluded, no matter the authorial intent at time of production."

Let me get this straight. The emboldened text basically states that if something comes along tomorrow that is valid, and states that Dimensions in Time is totally valid, then nobody can come along and state "but the authorial intent at the time was that it was invalid"? Do I have that right? If so, I'm not for it. It means some big shot writer can walk on the scene and turn a laughably invalid story, that was never meant to be taken seriously, and squeeze it into our multiverse.

The above quote needs amending even more, if my opinion. I honestly don't know what I'd personally write. But let me just ask of you: take the most invalid story you can. Take the story that you'd hate to be valid and assign that rule to it. And then imagine someone waltzing in and writing it valid by means of "oh, it was a parallel universe" or "it was a dream world created by the Dream Lord"...