Reputation from Pending Article

Dear Fellow Monks,

The oddest thing happened today: I submitted a CUFP (Conway's Game of Life), and waited for it to get approved. While I waited, I checked the policies and opinions on self-approval and self-frontpaging :) which basically echoed what I already felt about it (wait patiently and let someone else do it).

While I was going that, I refreshed the screen and saw the article actually gained a reputation point! But it's not even been accepted yet! Can we vote on not-yet-accepted submissions? (I guess so!) Should we really be able to??

Bemused,
rje

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Re: Reputation from Pending Article by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Sep 30, 2002 at 20:03 UTC
Yes, we should. F.ex, a troll may be downvoted and considered for delete votes (so that the node is auto-reaped) without having to get approved first. On the other hand, way-off-topic posts can be worthwhile to discuss and may earn upvotes, but shouldn't necessarily be approved. It is true that people often forget to think of approving - but there also level < 6 posters who can vote but not approve. So yes, I think it's just fine as is. Eventually it will be approved if it's worth being. It can always be reached via Newest Nodes regardless of approval anyway. Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply]
Re: Reputation from Pending Article by chromatic (Archbishop) on Sep 30, 2002 at 20:41 UTC
"Approval" has nothing to do with whether or not a node is published. A submitted node is published instantly. Approval only controls if the node appears on its section page or the front page. All postable nodes appear on Newest Nodes. Most postable nodes can be found from the user node lister, too.	[reply]
Re: Reputation from Pending Article by shotgunefx (Parson) on Oct 01, 2002 at 08:33 UTC
I was thinking about this the other day after seeing a nodes with decent rep that wasn't approved yet. It happens from time to time. Personally I think it would make sense for PM to automatically approve a node if it hits a certain positive rep. Not really that big a deal either way but it makes sense to me anyway. -Lee "To be civilized is to deny one's nature."	[reply]