User blog comment:HopelessNightOwl/An Update Regarding Lost Episodes and Haunted Gaming/@comment-33904527-20200208221543

"Television pastas centered on fictitious shows that somewhat resemble lost episode stories are now explicitly permitted."

"we have narrowed our definition of lost episodes to apply strictly to stories centered on real television shows and movies."

This is the biggest problem for me. Lost Episode pastas are dead and buried and deserve to lie undisturbed. I feel as if, even with good intentions, reworking the rules to give this genre more slack is just going to kick-start a new era of terrible creepypasta. Most of the time, terrible lost episode pastas aren't even focused on real-life media. They're usually based on movies/TV shows from the writer's own creation.

What I'm saying is that trying to find a good lost-episode pasta (something that isn't one of the classics like Candle Cove or 11 Miles) is like trying to find a needle in a haystack. All these new rules are doing is making it easier for writers to get by with sub-par material. Maybe instead of trying to restart old genres, we should focus on the newer ones. This wiki has been long-overdue for a blacklisting of Ritual pastas, to start.