Problem With Highlighting of Editor Edits

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   eugbugposted 2 months ago

   Some new text was added to one of my articles. But it wasn't highlighted in green. I always thought this was automated, but maybe editors just manually highlight text they add and forgot to do it this time. This is the first time I think it has happened. I'm happy enough with the edits though. However few people will see the 12 year old article, it's so far down below all the video and question fluff. Now that I've got a new basic entry level smartphone that was an upgrade on the seven year old one, niche sites load fast and ads aren't too annoying apart from the floating one at the top (although paragraph splitting is still a problem). However for long articles, I have lots of blank "content continues below" spaces, presumably as ads run out after maybe 30 are served.  Shouldn't the code that ads these have a limit it checks before placing more? Anyway there are worse problems, so unlikely anything will be done about this and a decision has probably been made not to fix things, if there's even anyone left to do that.

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      theraggededgeposted 2 months agoin reply to this

      Honestly, Eugene, expecting HP to run efficiently and send notifications of anything these days is rather optimistic

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         eugbugposted 2 months agoin reply to this

         Yes that's true, (rolling eyes emoji)

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      eugbugposted 2 months agoin reply to this

      "adds these"

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   Venkatachari Mposted 2 months ago

   If an article was edited, they used to inform us regarding the edits done. How did you know that it was edited? Did you get the email? Or, do you regularly watch for changes and edits to your articles? I wouldn't have noticed any changes without getting an email or notification. So, I don't know if any changes were there in mine too.

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      eugbugposted 2 months agoin reply to this

      I received got a notification and then checked the version with the highlighting.

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      MizBejabbersposted 2 months agoin reply to this

      I got an email recently that they'd edited my article in DenGarden about my underground house (again). This is the 3rd or 4th edit on it. They can't seem to be satisfied with their own tinkering. I'm happy with little things they catch in grammar or punctuation that I missed upon my proofreading, but I am NOT HAPPY with rewrites.
      I stated in the article that my whole point of writing it was because there was very little information online about the reality of living in one of these houses. Almost everything I found was advertising hype, and as a former ad writer myself, a lot of it was not true. All of these edits have removed my personality from the article, and now even with the "cons" I mentioned, it reads like a piece of advertising hype written by an impersonal content writer.

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         eugbugposted 2 months agoin reply to this

         I always revert edits if they're written in a way that I wouldn't express things.

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