Why collaborative storytelling is a meaningless phrase

[Jormengand]

Then you've missed part of the point entirely.

That broader definition of "storytelling" is part of what makes it unhelpful in the first place.

It's similar to the utter nonsense that calls brushing your teeth before going to bed or taking a shower in the morning as "a ritual" -- it might be pedantically, technically accurate, by a very broad meaning of "ritual", but that very broad meaning strips "ritual" of any specificity or utility as a word, and misrepresents what's going on with the actual act of showering or brushing teeth -- particularly if someone is doing it for purely functional reasons.

But "Story" to mean "A sequence of fictional or historical events" isn't meaningless. "Ritual" to mean "A series of actions taken at the same time each day regularly" isn't meaningless. You just don't like them because they're different from the meanings you're using.

Drop the persecution complex - no-one's saying that what you're doing is NDCS. No-one's trying to argue that what you're doing is NDCS. No-one's saying that you're doing something you're not. But what you're doing is BDCS, even if you think that BDCS is a stupid definition for storytelling. No-one's saying that you're recounting a narrative description of events that took place in the past. They're only saying that you're describing actions, and that that is what they would call "Storytelling." No-one is saying your way of having fun is wrong. They are only and solely using different words to describe the same thing.