If you could post an unpublished draft to AO3 and then list another user as a beta/editor. So they could view it and edit things, but not publish it without your final approval.
It would save the hassle of email and gdocs and whatnot, and automatically add their name as an editor.
Seriously, how awesome would that be?
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Only if they included flags/highlight/colored text in an easy to use interface. Inline edits are fine for SPAG, but for style and continuity and fact checking i need lots of space to ramble (and author needs to be able to delete my rambles easily!)
Oh, yeah, I was thinking it’d just mark-up somehow.
Being able to hold unpublished drafts on AO3 and tinker with them would be useful. I mean, you sort of can already, but it’s weird. (Last time I stowed a draft on there and then later published it, it set the publication date as the day I’d uploaded the draft, which was…less than ideal.)
The editing thing really would be the opposite of awesome, though. Including that kind of mark-up capability would change the site from an archive into a word processing app. It’d bulk up the site far too much. You know how weird GDocs can get (much as I love GDocs); the same thing would happen to AO3. It’s really not functionality that belongs to an archive.