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[BantyChooks]

I haven’t seen any recent discussions about this so I figured it would be alright to make a thread. Has there been any consideration of allowing article authors to unpublish or hide articles? As they are more instructional than conversational (e.g. thread posts), I don’t think it would interrupt things much to hide an article that needs edits or was published too quickly. I prefer to keep the articles under my name curated and high quality, and sometimes it bothers me that articles that need an update are still visible. I’d rather not delete and re-post them as some have gained a certain amount of traction in search rankings.

 

[Debbie292d]

I don't think even we as "article moderators" can return them to draft mode. I just tried on one of mine. I can move mine just the same as we can move anyone's, but assume that's just a VPM ability. But, can't put it back to draft mode.

I have moved a couple of articles to the Members Forum that were just people posting some update about their chickens, and yesterday I darn near did another one, but reread it a few times and even though it's a horrible article, it was meant to be informational if anyone wanted to know about a particular plant.

Once we move them out of articles and into the Members Forum, can they just move them back to articles when they're done or would a mod or us have to do that? I think that sort of takes the place of putting them into draft, with the exception that they can still be viewed and found when topic searches match, just they won't show up in the Learning Center or Coop forums if searched that way.

I agree though the author of an article should have a bit more "power" to move their article to draft again if they so desire. I don't see the harm in it, but it really would be rare as if something needs to be corrected or added, they can still edit it themselves, or ask us to fix something for them.

 

[BantyChooks]

I agree though the author of an article should have a bit more "power" to move their article to draft again if they so desire.

Yep. Of course it can be edited, but I’ve found sometimes I don’t have the time to dedicate a dozen hours to writing an article over again, or sometimes I’m unsure of the direction I want the article to go and need time to figure it out before I can correct it.

 

[BantyChooks]

It’s not an essential feature, of course, but I know I prefer to keep my published articles well curated and others may think the same.