The story module lets your users submit articles for consideration by the rest of the community, who can vote on them if moderation is enabled. Stories usually follow a publishing flow of submit -> moderate -> post to the main page -> comments. Administrators are able to shortcut this flow as desired.
+The story module lets your users submit articles in the simplest form: containing a title, a teaser and a body. In administer » settings » story you can set up an introductory text for story authors, and a floor on the number of words which may be included in a story. This is designed to help discourage the submission of trivially short stories.
create stories: Allows a role to create stories. They cannot edit or delete stories, even if they are the authors. You must enable this permission to in order for a role to create a story.
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ case 'node/add/story': return variable_get('story_help', ''); case 'node/add#story': - return t("A story is similar to a newspaper article. If stories are moderated, the post will be submitted to the attention of other users and be queued in the submission queue. Users and moderators vote on the posts they like or dislike, promoting or demoting them. When a post gets above a certain threshold it automatically gets promoted to the front page."); + return t("Stories are articles in their simplest form: they have a title, a teaser and a body, but can be extended by other modules. The teaser is part of the body too. Stories may be used as a personal blog or for news articles."); } }