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Disable submission of articles to main #549

Closed vaniver closed 8 years ago

vaniver commented 8 years ago

This is a quick fix to force everything to Discussion while we work on a new way to organize content on LW. This is for regular users only; we should leave the ability for mods to submit and move posts to Main so they can still be Promoted.

xrpd commented 8 years ago

Patch https://github.com/tricycle/lesswrong/pull/556 is intended to resolve this issue.

xrpd commented 8 years ago

Patch #556 not only prevents normal users from posting to main, but also prevents (normal user) article authors from editing articles that have been previously posted to main, or that are subsequently posted to main by an admin or moderator.

Is this acceptable? (Admins and moderators can always edit.)

vaniver commented 8 years ago

Hmm. I'm leery of depriving people of the ability of editing their own articles. How much work do you think it would be to allow editing? (i.e. a post can be put in main if the user is an admin or it was already in main)

xrpd commented 8 years ago

@vaniver, I submitted a new pull request #557, which disables new posts to main, but allows editing of existing posts in main. Please confirm with @wezm in the discussion in #556 that this is the option you want. The basic functionality of #556 is still available if you decide in the end that "locking" main to normal users is the better option for some reason.

cdaloisio commented 8 years ago

Merged #557