Submission Statuses & Message History

Every submission is in exactly one status at a time. The status decides two things: whether the record is locked (only a reviewer can act on it) or unlocked (the contributor can edit it), and whether it's a dead end or can move again.

The Five Statuses

• Draft — unlocked. The contributor is still writing; it can be edited or deleted freely and was never seen by a reviewer.
• Submitted — locked. Sent for review; the contributor can no longer touch it until a reviewer acts.
• Revise — unlocked. A reviewer sent it back with feedback; the contributor edits and resubmits, which returns it to Submitted.
• Approved — locked, terminal. The question has been published into the live Question Bank and the submission record is permanently linked to it.
• Rejected — locked, terminal. Permanently declined; there is no path back to editing from here.

How States Connect

Draft → Submitted is the only way in. From Submitted, a reviewer's decision (see Reviewing & Approving Submissions) sends it to exactly one of three places: Approved or Rejected (both dead ends), or Revise — which is the only status that loops: Revise → (contributor edits) → Submitted → (reviewer decides again). A submission can cycle through Revise as many times as it takes.

The Message History

Every Submit, Revise, and Reject appends an entry to the submission's message log — who acted, what status it moved to, and the message that came with it. The log is the shared record between contributor and reviewer: a contributor returning to a Revised submission sees exactly what was asked of them, and a reviewer picking up a submission that's already looped through Revise once can see the full history of what changed and why, not just the current draft.