New Article QC Process Lag Question
If you’ve been following the changes we’re working on… you know that we’re very close from changing our 2nd human QC article reviewers from POST to PRE. That means instead of our quality control team reviewing articles after they were made live; they will be reviewed before the article is made live.
This change has created a new problem of what to do with the article being reviewed during the time lag between the 1st editor approval and the 2nd QC editor’s approval?
We’ve narrowed it down to two options and would like your input:
- Option #1 is to lock the article down after it is reviewed and approved for the few hours to a full day before our QC team (editor #2 that touches your articles) can review the approval of the 1st editor.
- Upside to this is that it’s the easiest for us to implement, gives internal credit to the editor for having touched the article, and would be the fastest path for an article to move from review to approval to approval to live on the site.
- Downside is that the author would NOT be able to edit his or her article once it’s been reviewed by the 1st editor during this time lag span of a few hours to a day.
- Option #2 is to let the Author edit the article after it’s been approved by the 1st editor, but the action of the Author editing their article would cause the article to be put to the back of the review line.
- Upside to this option is that the Author retains control over being able to fix problems within their article before it goes live on the site.
- Downside to this option is our editors will be doing work that is wasted and anytime an Author edits his or her article, it’ll take longer to approve because it’ll move to the back of the line.
Your thoughts on Option #1 or #2?
I’d go with #1.
Why? Because it makes things more efficient for EzineArticles AND forces writers to submit higher quality stuff or they get penalized by being put in the back of the line.
Basically, it’s faster for all involved except people who hog your time and create hassles.
Just a side note from me personally. I write my articles at EzineArticles, not beforehand.
What I do is I write the article then submit it. But then if it needs edits, I edit it for the 5 minutes or less after I just submitted it.
Your editors are really quick sometimes with my articles (live within 15 minutes… a good thing), but speaking for myself… if you can have a 5 minute lag time after an article is submitted so I can edit it without getting caught in that “lockdown”, that’d be great.
Actually, this won’t be a big deal with me for long since I’ll be changing my submission patterns with the premium account service.
How would this affect the premium accts? Just a thought, maybe have premium members continue on with “1 post live” approval as an added benefit? Just a thought.
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