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Re:Who Pays Writers? by wyldfire on Friday May 13, 2016 @10:25AM (#11690574)
> Also, if you don't like ads but our writing tools, you can optionally host it on our site for free without ads in the community section.

From https://pub.scotch.io/ideas:

> "Sometimes we just feel an article isn't a good fit for our readers."

Is there a way to submit a topic for an article for review without going through the trouble to submit the entire article? I'd hate to write an article that seems interesting to me but doesn't match Scotch's intended audience.

Re:Who Pays Writers? by scotchio on Friday May 13, 2016 @10:40AM (#11690653)
Definitely (that would blow and be a waste of time for everyone). Our FAQ [1] outlines that. Basically you have two options:

1. Email us at [email protected] first

2. Submit just the outline of the post for review as a normal post with comments at the top. We'll see it's just an outline and be able to provide feedback

We've been working with guest writers for well over a year now and really try to work with everyone as best we can. I would say almost all our writers have had a good experience with us.

You can imagine though that some of the post people want to write are really not fit at all for scotch.io (we have no choice but to maintain some sort of general theme and quality control). That's also why you can publish instantly whatever you want (well written, poorly written, on cats, tech, ice cream, whatever) to The Pub's community post section.

We just launched The Pub like a month or so ago to streamline guest writings, so any feedback is super welcome.

[1]: https://pub.scotch.io/faq