Publishing Privileges on Add1toCOBOL.com

Last Updated on Friday, 5 November 2010 07:35 Written by Laurel Thursday, 4 November 2010 02:47

Just a quick note about your publishing privileges on this WordPress site.  When you sign up on this site, you will be automatically granted the privileges of a Contributor on the main site, an Author on the Forum and an Editor on the Wiki.  What do these terms mean?

Well, a Contributor can submit posts, pages, comments and other content for review by an editor. Once an Editor has approved their submission, it will be published. This permission level is good for new friends who’ve just joined our site.

Authors on the other hand, can publish their own submissions without waiting for approval from an Editor. For the main site, we generally will make someone an Author once we get to know them better.

Finally Editors can publish their own submissions and edit anything anyone else has submitted. Editors for the main site will be rarer.

Why the difference? Well, we want the main content to be approved content. It’s our public face after all.

But Forums and Wikis have different rules.  A Forum is a kind of free-for-all, everyone is free to post whatever they want. This is good for asking questions, having discussions and so on. While a Wiki is specifically made so that everyone can post and edit any of the content.

These permissions will help us to keep spam to a minimum, while allowing great flexibility for everyone in our community. So if you want to post, or share articles, just sign up. If anyone has any questions about the permissions, feel free to contact us. You can email Aoirthoir via Add 1 to COBOL dot com or call him at 440.941.3396.