Publishing Semi-Edited Hubs and Simultaneous Edits

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   eugbugposted 5 years ago

   Generally I publish a new hub when it's fairly raw, to get it online, rather than waiting until it's all polished up and shiny, which could take weeks. Then I can be polishing while it's in the queue and editors are getting around to dealing with it and perhaps moving it to a niche site. I could make tens of edits and re-saves in the period after initial publishing. Presumably editors know we're in the middle of edits before they attempt any snipping before shifting an article to a niche site, however I can't remember ever getting a notification telling me to stop editing because a modification is imminent? Inevitably there could be a clash if there isn't some sort of "traffic light" system?

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      Uzochukwu Mikeposted 5 years agoin reply to this

      Hubpages has their own ways of doing their things. Once an editor starts editing, they do not allow you go on with your own editing.

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   Bethieannieposted 5 years ago

   There is some sort of the traffic light system. Not too long ago I remember trying to login to edit one of my articles when I got a message saying that I could not do it because it was already being edited by a moderator. Once the editor begins working on it the locket until they're done. You can resume edits after that

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   MizBejabbersposted 5 years ago

   As a retired editor of 34 years experience, I would never think of publishing a first or unedited draft. That is just lazy sloppy workmanship.  I can certainly see why HP editors would object. I usually read and edit my work at least four times before I hit the publish button, and then to my horror, I normally see at least two typos, mostly punctuation, after it is published. Publishing an unedited piece of work is a no-no in my book.

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      eugbugposted 5 years agoin reply to this

      I wouldn't either, but usually the initial draft is very basic. However there aren't any misspellings or grammar mistakes. It could take me a further year to asymptotically  improve the article. In the meantime after publishing and within the day or so it takes them to feature it, I add more content and maybe rewrite text modules so that concepts are better expressed and not clunky. (The title of this post is a bit of a misnomer).

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         Solarasposted 5 years agoin reply to this

         I get it, and I do something similar.  Things look different in the published form than in the editing module. Sometimes I am too close to what I have written, and imagine that I see what I intended to write (dyslexia?). Then, once it is published, I can see the typos Mizbejabbers references.
         
         I find myself thinking up new ideas, and adding to it over months; I think that helps keep it fresh. It takes forever for new articles to gain momentum, so publishing before it is fully baked makes sense to me.

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   eugbugposted 5 years ago

   I suppose it's a form of "beta testing".

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   Doneta Wrateposted 5 years ago

   I usually go over mine four times over 3or 4 days before publishing.  Take a break from it for a day.  On some, like who is the queen of Sheba and Solomon,  I added stuff for a couple weeks after.  But I can see adding stuff and do a little rewriting after publishing.  I just don't want any glaring misspelling or grammar error or anything like that when I publish.

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   theraggededgeposted 5 years ago

   I love that there are so many different methods. I write it, reread it once and publish it straight away. Rarely go back to an article once published. They generally get moved to a niche site within days/couple of weeks and get the once-over by an editor at that time.
   
   I'm editing as I write. Trying to ensure every paragraph is as good as I can get it as I go along. The changes that are made later are generally when the editors 'correct' my idiosyncratic English into US style and my double and single dashes into em-dashes.

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   eugbugposted 5 years ago

   I reckon I've changed each of my my best performing hubs hundreds of times.

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      theraggededgeposted 5 years agoin reply to this

      I should probably do that.

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