The Editing Protocol (EditingProtocol.com) is a set of rules and guidelines that can be used by humans and machines to determine whether a story is worth publishing, how to specifically improve the story’s content, and how to distribute the story with more reach and relevance. HackerNoon dubbed this technical documentation as The Editing Protocol, and can be read by humans to guide publishing at scale. The protocol’s guidelines are rule-based and can be easily converted into conditional statements. Once programmed, the protocol can allow human editors to focus on the quality and improvement of publishable stories, while the system automatically informs writers of what rule they have broken, or guidelines they have missed. With The Editing Protocol, small teams can publish content at scale, using both human editors and rule-based flagging systems to provide an efficient publishing process.