Michael Tharrington

No problems, Valentin!

I hope you could follow all that, haha. Like I said, the current set up is kinda tricky, But hey, we have a new UX person in the house here at DZone and hopefully we can improve on this soon!

Sorry, got a bit distracted there. I should actually mention a few other things...

- Upon successfully submitting your article to mod, the preview page should auto-open, so you can instantly check to see if your post says "In Moderation" or "Draft." I imagine some of you may want to do this upon submitting... I know I would! I'm one that locks my car at least three times after exiting a vehicle. Hey, you can't be too sure!

- Also upon successfully submitting your article to mod, you should receive an email from DZone telling you that the article successfully submitted. This email will obviously be sent to the email address related to the DZone account you're submitting an article from.

- While it is possible for you to enter an article that's been submitted to moderation and edit things after the fact, we really prefer that you try to get all of your edits in prior to submitting the post. The reason is, there are editors that enter these articles each day, work on them, and schedule them out to post. They have an article quota to meet each day and a regular workflow to adhere to. When folks start hopping into articles that are already in mod and editing things, they risk saving over one of our editor's edits or knocking a scheduled article back to unscheduled. So, try and think of sending to moderation as the final hand-off... we don't want anybody to get in the habit of editing things that are in mod. That being said, we do want you contributors to be happy with how your posts appear on DZone, so if you must make changes then please do go ahead and make changes, just try to do so sparingly!

Okay... I think that about covers everything. Who knows, maybe I'll be back in a few with more info!

Hey Valentin!

Sorry for the delay here.

So, you can indeed view articles that you've already submitted as well as drafts, though you're correct that it's quite tricky. Below I'll outline the steps taken to get back to each...

1. The first thing you'll want to do is open our article editor as if you were starting a new DZone article. So, look to the top right of the screen and click the icon that says "Post +" to the right of your name, then "Post an Article." And, now you should be at that familiar article editor.

2. Scroll down the page, looking to the right sidebar that offers up a bunch of useful info about classifying your article and such. In this column, you should a section called "Drafts" where you can locate all the different drafts you've written... but this is kind of misleading.

3. The reason I say it's misleading is that your submitted articles are mixed right into this "Drafts" list. Unfortunately, there is no way to distinguish at a glance between your drafts and your submitted articles, though you can check their status by clicking into each article in the list.

4. Upon clicking an article in the "Drafts" list, you'll be taken to your article in editor view. Now, look to the top right-hand corner where the "Save" button is and click the "Preview" button to the left of it. This is meant to show you what your article will look like when it appears on DZone (with our sponsors' ads and all), but it also will show you the status of your article—whether it's "In Moderation" or "Draft"—via a red icon in the left-hand corner of the editor (just above the title and level with the save button.)

And, that's pretty much it.

Admittedly, this UX needs improving. Just writing out that explanation makes me aware of how convoluted this system for housing drafts and in mod posts is. I think we can come up with something better and hopefully I can come back here before too long to report that we have!

not a probs! :-)

No no! We're the monsters here... poor import! Angela's code checks out - https://stackify.com/return-ajax-response-asynchronous-javascript-call/ ... fixing it now. Sorry Angela! Sorry Clifford! :-(

Haha! I'd like to frame this comment.

I totally get where you're coming from! ... expecting a counter-pun and getting hit with the brick wall of literalism. It's quite jarring!.

But the reason this comment made my day is the way that ya took us on that journey from "awkward space" to "original pre-pun joke setup space." I honestly read that bit like 3 times before it sunk in. I suppose I was spacing out.

... is also quite funny just because of its matter-of-fact tone.

It's like: Yeah, these DBAs are at the bar... of course, they are. They're good people. Do we need any other reasons?

I feel like that's supposed to be addressing the audience's expectations because we've already made up our minds about the outcome: there shouldn't be tables in the NoSQL bar.

Well, I feel like I'm ruining the joke, but...

This is just meant to play with your expectations. If you are familiar with the original joke, then you're expecting the gag to be built up around the punny line that you can't find a table in a NoSQL bar. And perhaps even if you don't know the joke, the obvious pun probably jumps out at ya.

Here, the NoSQL bar is a literal bar, and a table is a literal table. You want to make a connection between the 2, and that's why it's funny when the connection is deliberately subverted. But beyond that, the punch line...

And, in case you don't know the classic, here ya go!

No worries! And, thanks very much!

Hey Dan,

In theory, there's no big difference with an article being posted on DZone versus it being posted on your blog... one appears on your site and one appears on ours. A lead-in article posted on DZone would just mean that you provided a snippet from it and linked back to the original instance of the article on your blog.

However, we require that our contributors submit full articles (not partial or lead-in posts) because we want each DZone article to be able to stand on its own and not rely on another website to host it. If someone posts an article on DZone, it stays on DZone.

Aside from that, each piece of content on DZone has been edited by our staff and the design is formatted to be uniform with the rest of our articles for ease of readability. We spend a lot of time working on articles with authors—both editing grammar and offering subject-matter guidance—and afterward we do a lot to try and get the word out there about their writing—aggregating articles in newsletters, sharing them on social media, etc. The trade-off that we ask for these services is that our contributors provide us with complete articles because we want our site to offer a complete experience.

Another thing... we want DZone to be a community. We like to promote conversations on our site and it helps to have full articles on the site to reference when having those conversations. We realize that it's our community of contributors that makes DZone possible and we're very grateful. In return, we're trying our best to make the DZone platform worthwhile to our contributors offering contests with prizes, free publications, and easy-to-view metrics. Hopefully, we'll continue to provide value, and we're definitely always trying to improve and are open to suggestions.

And of course, we have sponsors that pay us and have an obligation to provide complete content on DZone. Sending our readers to other sites to read articles wouldn't be very conducive with that. You may think it'd be okay here and there for us to share lead-in articles, but we have to enforce a standard so that it's fair for all contributors.

Lastly, we have a Links Page specifically for contributors to share and view links. If you're wanting to promote your article and site with a quick link, this is our answer for that.

Hello,

I appreciate your inquiry, but regret to inform you that your article was rejected for publication—someone on our editing team should have contacted you to let you know, but it appears that they did not.

The article you submitted is fine in a different context, but our focus is software development—programming along with work methodologies. While your submission is in the general space of software creation—Creating a Website—the angle you take is more from a marketing and design perspective, offering general advice that I think is better suited for admins of a website. We may have done a bit of coverage like this in the past, but are really trying to provide the best material we can for our niche audience of developers and thus are being more stringent about what we accept.

Again, I'd like to say thanks for the submission and hope that you understand why we've opted not to share this one. If you have any questions about the types of posts we're interested in sharing please check out our Article Submission Guidelines.

Ha, got so carried away with my explanation down below that I forgot to say thanks! This feedback means a lot to us! :-)

Whoops! We got a little careless there... had two separate editors working on separate instances of the same article. I'm guessing you may have submitted it twice because you weren't sure if the first went through.

Anyway, each morning we classify (or zone) all of the articles that come into moderation. Generally, we take turns every day as to who performs the zoning process. I suppose in this case that we had different people zoning on different days and one person considered your post for Integration while the other considered it for Web Dev. Then one instance would've gone to the editor who covers our Integration Zone while the other instance went to our Web Dev editor... neither party realized that your article was in the other parties' hands.

However, I see now that you deleted the duplicate in Web Dev, leaving the instance in Integration. Looks like you fixed our mistake for us! :-) Thanks!

Hey Michael, not a problem! I can understand being excited about your first submission to DZone and if anybody is going to ask about the status of the article, this is the nicest way I think I've ever seen anybody do it. :-)

It generally takes about 1-7 days after submission for an article to go live. Looking at your post now, I can see that you submitted it 3 days ago. We've got quite a few posts that we're working through here, but yours is near top of the list... obviously, we gotta go in order of who submits first. But, I believe that we should have your article edited today and it should go live early next week if not this weekend.

I appreciate your patience with us while we work through this one, and your kindness in the way that you asked for an update. Just hold tight, and we'll make your post live very soon.

Hope you have a great weekend!

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It's good to see you checking out DZone, Auryn! I'll send you a couple cool links I think you'll be into soon.

Hey Can! Sorry, just saw this message... luckily, I noticed you made a few changes yesterday, they all looked good, and I went ahead and pushed it back to the public view. Thanks very much for all of your work on this!

Mongo for me is a stance for skateboarding... push with the front foot. I totally ride mongo! :-)