Before I get to my questions... Forum admins: It's a little shocking to see my email-name being used as the username for posts on this forum. Probably you need to make it clearer. Users like me expect their chosen name (mine: PLEASED_TO_MEET_YOU) to be used on this site, not something the forum plugin concocts behind the scenes that leaks personal information. Just FYI. (But I fixed it.)

Moving on.

I want to design a moderately-sized, 20-200 contributor blogging platform presented with a unified "magazine" style format.

• Can I easily setup a meaningful permissions structure with October? I need admins, editors, moderators, and contributors, in addition to guests authorized to make comments. These accounts need to have different capabilities.
• Is it reasonable to expect Wordpress babies to login and post their contributions to a non-public draft/queue? (We need to review each contribution.) Will Wordpress babies be confused and lost and fill my email box with bitter complaints and tears?

If the answer is yes to both these questions, then I will begin developing the site with October. I'm sure the answer is yes, but I want to know before I start investing time into something as complex as a CMS. P.S. I hate Wordpress.

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Permissions are built in and easy to configure.

The interface is user friendly (in my opinion). I have moved wordpress clients to it before without issue.

I build my own blogging plugins for my websites, and they do feature non-public draft functions. I think there might be a few different ways to do this.