What human review means in Editant

WordPress records who last saved a post and when it was published. It does not record that anyone read the final wording, what they thought of it, or that they took responsibility for it. Editant exists to record exactly that.

The four things a review records

Who. Every review link asks the reviewer to identify themselves before they can comment or decide: a name, or a name and an email address, set per link. Editant records what the reviewer asserts; it does not verify it against an outside source. With Pro a link can also be anonymous, for cases where the fact of a review matters more than the name. Reviewer identity capture

What. Comments are threaded against the post they refer to, not held in an inbox. With Pro a comment can be anchored to a block or a sentence, and a reviewer can propose the exact replacement wording as a tracked change. Reviewing in the text

The decision. Each reviewer records one of two decisions, Approve or Request changes, with an optional message. A decision belongs to a named reviewer on a specific link. The post detail view

When. Every comment and decision carries a timestamp, stored in UTC.

The cycle

Generate a link, send it to a person, they read the rendered draft and respond, you act on the response. A Request changes decision sends the draft back to you; when you have edited it, a re-review request emails the reviewers and the cycle runs again on the new version. Requesting a re-review

What sign-off means

In Free Core, sign-off is a recorded Approve decision from a captured identity, with its time, stored in your own database against the post. That is enough to answer “did anyone approve this, and who”.

In Pro, the same decision is also signed. At the moment of the decision Editant takes a snapshot of the content, hashes it, and signs a record binding the reviewer, the decision, the time and that content hash with the site’s private key. That is enough to answer “did this person approve this exact text”, years later, to someone who does not trust your database. What a signed approval contains

With quorum, Pro can also require more than one reviewer, so publishing waits for two of three, or all of them. Publish quorum and approval gating

What Editant never does

Editant never decides. It records decisions made by people. The Pro AI assistant drafts edits from comments, summarises threads, finds contradictions and audits a draft, and every one of those actions is logged like any other, but it cannot approve, reject or publish. The only actor that can record a decision is a reviewer, and the only actor that can accept a suggestion is the author.