Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-10502460-20180324034835/@comment-10502460-20180324211651

BloodySpghetti wrote: I think you need to expand on what kind of ritual you're talking. If you mean it in the sense of a ritual story, like the holders and "if you do this a demon will give you that" kind of schtik, yeah, these are lazy, lousy and stupid. Perhaps we should butcher them on the standarts level.

I'm not sure about blacklisting, though.

As for CPs that include a ritual as part of their plot, don't get rid of that, what happens when someone gets a pretty historical description of a ritual in their piece? These tended to be sick. Like beheading a captive after beating him/her to death just because your gods consumed the head of the sacrifice to get to their soul.

soooo....

I am talking strictly about "instruction manual" type ritual pastas addressed in the second person. I agree that just mentioning or including a ritual as a plot element shouldn't be blacklisted.

The thing about ritual pastas of this type, and the main reason I think they can be blacklisted, is the same problem other categories of spinpasta had before they were blacklisted: it used to be original and creative, but now we've pretty much run out of unique takes on this type of pasta, which results in users who want to write such stories having to clear a very high bar in order to be considered up to QS, and in the end they just end up being almost guaranteed to be deleted. I came up with this suggestion after I recently M4R'd a ritual pasta and realized that it is not likely that I will come across a ritual pasta that I do not M4R any time soon. Which means that if you contribute such a pasta and I see it first then it will almost certainly get the M4R. When I realized that, I figured if was time to make this suggestion.