Retrospectively adding a story to a series

Sorry if this has been asked somewhere down the line before. I have found posts along similar lines, but dont seem to have a conclusive answer, at least not that I can find.

If I have a publish Story, that I have not listed as part of a series. If I then want it to become part of a Series, can I edit the story, to only add it to a series, not make any amendments to the content. Will it go back on a list to be cleared by a moderator? Or will it just take the Series edit and remain on my published list Will it lose any scores/comments it has accumulated?

I believe it will need re-verification, but since that's the only change you made, we'll be able to do it quickly.

Barring a server snafu, or manual comment removal, stories never lose their comments, likes, favs etc. Those are tied to the url, and the url is fixed.

Thank you Cydia. Good to know. If it needs re verifying, will it then appear on the page as a newly published story, or remain wherever it was on the list and still have its original published date? I am not trying to bump it back to the front page, so I just wanted to be clear that this isnt what I a trying to find a way of doing!

Just adding to, editing or reordering a story series should not require a trip to the moderation queue. As long as you're not changing the story title, image or body text, you can edit the metadata to your heart's content. Everything is retained: publish date, score, comments, etc.

Also, for future reference, if you do make any edits that require remoderation, please summarise the level of changes in the Note To Moderator box to help us gauge how much work needs to be done to get it back on the site (your story will return to the site with its original publication date).

You can always tell if the changes you make are going to require remodding because the button text changes from "Save" to "Unpublish". The latter takes the story off the site into your drafts where you can make any further changes, check it still looks okay and then push it back to the moderation queue.

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Just adding to, editing or reordering a story series should not require a trip to the moderation queue. As long as you're not changing the story title, image or body text, you can edit the metadata to your heart's content. Everything is retained: publish date, score, comments, etc.

Also, for future reference, if you do make any edits that require remoderation, please summarise the level of changes in the Note To Moderator box to help us gauge how much work needs to be done to get it back on the site (your story will return to the site with its original publication date).

You can always tell if the changes you make are going to require remodding because the button text changes from "Save" to "Unpublish". The latter takes the story off the site into your drafts where you can make any further changes, check it still looks okay and then push it back to the moderation queue.

Thank you, I appreciate your explanation!

That’s been exactly my experience. Adding or changing the series assignment, tags or even genre does not generally require remoderation, although I have had a couple of instances when a story went back into the queue for unknown reasons.

In either case, the comments, score and original publication are retained upon republication, so nothing to worry about there.

Even if you do go back into the queue, the worst thing that happens is the story disappears from public view while it is being reviewed, possibly interrupting the flow of a series. I noticed once, while that was happening, that a reader commented on the immediately previous story. I immediately let him know that the next story was unavailable, and informed him when it was published again, and he was thankful for my letting him know.

Thanks, I have made the adjustment I wanted to and added a series tag and it was changed immediately and didn't need re modding