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Started by mjyoung · June 15, 2009

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I don't know how much of the "long story" to post here, but let me see if I can be brief.

Sergiy Koshkin contacted me with a critique of what he understood of the time travel theory we use in Multiverser, which is the centerpiece of the Temporal Anomalies in Popular Time Travel Movies web site. I published his critique on my site and responded. He then sent me another critique. I suggested that he publish it somewhere.

In the interim, he has posted comments here related to my most recent article here, A Draft: Toward Two-dimensional Time, so I suggested that this might be a reasonable place for his time travel ideas to appear. (If nothing else, it might increase traffic to Gaming Outpost as some of my non-gaming time travel fans pop over to view the discussion here.)

He sent me an e-mail which I received today saying that he had submitted the article "for review", which following the preview link he gave me I can see at http://gamingoutpost.com/?p=1624&preview=true and following from that link back to the edit function I was able to approve the article.

The problem is that before I did that, I could not find the article coming through "the front door"--that is, going from the Gaming Outpost home page to the Account page, there was no indication anywhere I could find that there was an article posted "Pending Review". I'm quite happy to review and approve or disapprove (where appropriate) articles, but I don't see how to know that they are awaiting that.

Did I miss something?

Under "Posts" on the left side in the admin area, there's a menu item for "Edit." If you select that, then, at the top, under the Edit Posts heading, you can filter the list, including by "Pending Review." That should get you there.

Here's a direct link:

http://gamingoutpost.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=pending

Ah, but there is nothing to alert me to the existence of such pending posts--I have to check to find them? That sounds like something the designers need to address.

--M. J. Young

I can't find one, no. That does seem like an oversight. I'll see if maybe there's a plugin to handle it, but you may just have to check on a periodic basis.