If an edit to a current published story fails, does the original story get removed?

[AG31]

I haven't submitted edits for a long time because I'm afraid the process might be to remove the current version before publishing the edited version, and if the edited version fails some new algorithm check I'll be left with no story.

If my edited version fails some review, will my original version stay in place?

 

[Bazzle]

I haven't submitted edits for a long time because I'm afraid the process might be to remove the current version before publishing the edited version, and if the edited version fails some new algorithm check I'll be left with no story.

If my edited version fails some review, will my original version stay in place?

As long as you haven't added anything naughty or used Ai to ruin it...why would you be worried?

 

[TheLobster]

Edits to published stories require submitting a brand new entry since they are manually applied. I don't see how failing a content check on that new submission would do anything to the existing one.

 

[BobbyBrandt]

From my experience, Laurel won't remove a story being replaced by an edited one until the replacement is also published successfully.

When I had her replace all of my chapter submissions with single, longer submissions, the replacements got published before the chapters were removed. I imagine the same would be true with edits to an existing story, but if the titles were exactly the same, that might not work.

 

[ElectricBlue]

If my edited version fails some review, will my original version stay in place?

Yes. The old text is taken from the database and the new text put in its place. All else remains. That's why you need to submit a complete file.

Your fear of an edit not getting through is unfounded, I think. I would expect Laurel to do a direct text compare to see what the changes are - and they should only be minor: typos, spelling errors, things like that, not great chunks of new content.

To substantially change a story is abusing the edit process in my opinion. If you want to do that, that's Delete and Submit a new story (and take your chances on the same screening that every new story gets).

 

[ElectricBlue]

From my experience, Laurel won't remove a story being replaced by an edited one until the replacement is also published successfully.

When I had her replace all of my chapter submissions with single, longer submissions, the replacements got published before the chapters were removed. I imagine the same would be true with edits to an existing story, but if the titles were exactly the same, that might not work.

You were doing something different.

An Edit is a straight swap out within the same dataset. You were creating a new chunk of data, with a new file name.

 

[ronde]

Edits to published stories require submitting a brand new entry since they are manually applied. I don't see how failing a content check on that new submission would do anything to the existing one.

There is at least one situation that will result in the removal of the original story and the edit entered as a new story.

I received a rejection notice on a story I published 23 years ago. The rejection was for underage content. My assumption is some reader read the story and reported it. I found the only place that could be construed as implying an underage character and edited it to remove that implication.

When I checked my story listing, the story was gone. When it was republished, it was published as a new story, but with the original statistics for rating, votes, read, comments, etc.

 

[Britva415]

It seems possible/conceivable that if the original story contains something which was missed in the previous approval process, the edit would draw attention to it.

Beyond that, submitting edits doesn't automatically remove the original story until the edit replaces it, and, since the edit is technically a new story (which will replace the contents of the old one when the process is complete), rejection also wouldn't automatically remove the original story either.

Removal of the old one would have to be manual. So unless you give them a good reason to do that, it shouldn't happen.

 

[Trionyx]

Some words of caution: It can take weeks before an edited story is published and the old one is pulled. I assume story edits are fairly low on their priority list.

 

[BobbyBrandt]

You were doing something different.

An Edit is a straight swap out within the same dataset. You were creating a new chunk of data, with a new file name.

I've also done straight up edits with the same experience.