I want to confirm the details, since they may be different from another site I am on.
I assume the edited story goes back for verification before being posted? So I have to through the same process of editing, saving drafts and then submitting the final version? I can't quite picture that the new draft is there at the same time the old version is still in place.
(The other site is a bit irksome in that one has to submit a new file - a replacement file in effect. I had to learn to keep one around case I did want to edit it. But nothing changes until the moderators clear the new version. The readers of course would never notice unless there is an author note at the top of the changed text.)
Are the votes and comments retained? Is it advisable to write a note to the moderators informing them of what is going on?
I hope this is clear. Thank you in advance!
It will need to be re-verified, so please edit in the Lush Editor. That way a Lush mod can re-verify the story much faster and your story will be back up sooner.
Sorry to bump an old thread, but my question is related so it seems silly to start a new one. Can I just clarify something about editing in the lush editor? The last thing I want to do is unnecessarily increase the load for our hardworking mods, but I inadvertently did so just after midnight - sorry Rachel, and thanks for re-approving it anyway!
1. Is copying and pasting from within the story okay? e.g. moving a word or two, either by copy/paste or highlight and drag (I did a few of those)
2. If 1 is okay, is C&P of phrases from external sources okay? I pasted maybe fifteen words total I'd tired elsewhere.
3. Is clicking on the source button and then making changes there okay or does that show everything after the first such edit as being new? e.g. changing all the ""e;" to "“" and "”"
Some edits to an old story earlier, showed as entirely red, as if I'd copy and pasted all my edits from somewhere else. I definitely did not do that as I have read previously it doesn't highlight only the changes when you do. I rarely have time to do my editing in one chunk, so I do my edits in Word on my phone with track changes turned on so they're highlighted in red, then manually re-type them in the Lush editor when I have an evening free. I do get lazy though and C&P phrases if they're more than a couple of words...
The really weird thing is that when I just checked, it's not the whole story that shows as new text, or even everything from the first edit that I did using one of the methods listed above. It's everything from the very first change, in this case, changing a comma to a semicolon, which I am 99% sure I didn't do with a copy and paste, so whatever I did wrong made everything I did wrong.
Anyway, I want to make sure I don't do it again, and thought it might be helpful to post it here for that one other person who wants to fix commas in ten-year-old stories and change "tits" to "boobies" because the alliteration amuses them...)
Generally, we see the differences only. That makes it easy to see the highlighted bits and just check those.
The Lush diff engine does, however, sometimes get completely befuddled and thinks the entire piece - or large swathes of it - have been edited when you change just one word or two, or alter a paragraph marker, or italics, or... something I've never quite figured out.
I would generally avoid editing in the source view. Well, I mean, being an HTML geek, I'd probably do that, but as a rule of thumb, it's saner if you don't go in there unless you have to: the markup that WYSIWYG tools like CKEditor generate is simply hideous and you risk mashing large parts of the document with a misplaced angle bracket, which is difficult to track down.
Copying and pasting phrases from external sources is usually okay, as is moving words around, and copying bits and bobs about. Even editing it in your word processor and pasting the entire thing back in new should be okay. The Lush editor deals with most things, but sometimes it gets its knickers in a twist: and when that happens, it does so on a grand scale, as you discovered.
If anyone does figure out what tips it over the edge, please let me know because I'm genuinely curious to narrow down why it goes mad sometimes.
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I'm not a mod, but I've done a TON of editing stories after they've been published, because I don't now how to stop editing. Anyway, my understanding is that you can edit whatever you want, as long as you do it inside the Lush editor, as that will show the changes to the mods and make their job easier. The story disappears until it's been re-verified. Votes and comments remain. Unless you try and change the title - that's becomes part of the URL and can't be changed.
There have been a couple times that I changed a story so much I couldn't just edit inside the Lush editor. In those cases I apologized profusely to the mods in the comments box of the editor as I submitted. They were always very nice about it. I imagine the OP has enough writing cred so I doubt they'll mind.
Just remember to keep a copy of the original story on word just incase the edits you do dont work
