WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Eliminate the "Viewer" role for private blogs in favor of "Follower" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/eliminate-the-viewer-role-for-private-blogs-in-favor-of-follower WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Eliminate the "Viewer" role for private blogs in favor of "Follower" en Mon, 20 May 2013 21:19:52 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 lauramillerbarber on "Eliminate the "Viewer" role for private blogs in favor of "Follower"" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/eliminate-the-viewer-role-for-private-blogs-in-favor-of-follower#post-992721 Thu, 30 Aug 2012 20:00:24 +0000 lauramillerbarber 992721@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I agree! I just now learned the difference, and there is much confusion with my viewers. Anyway to automatically make them all followers?

]]> lauramillerbarber on "Eliminate the "Viewer" role for private blogs in favor of "Follower"" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/eliminate-the-viewer-role-for-private-blogs-in-favor-of-follower#post-992720 Thu, 30 Aug 2012 19:59:32 +0000 lauramillerbarber 992720@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I agree! I just now learned the difference, and there is much confusion with my viewers. Anyway to automatically make them all followers?

]]> cah329a on "Eliminate the "Viewer" role for private blogs in favor of "Follower"" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/eliminate-the-viewer-role-for-private-blogs-in-favor-of-follower#post-992223 Thu, 30 Aug 2012 11:34:24 +0000 cah329a 992223@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I created a private blog to manage a project, but did not realize that when I add users as "viewers" I can't see them as ordinary users! My research shows that that's because this is a private blog -- if it were a public blog I would have been able to choose the "Follower" role and see them as I do ordinary users, including the ability to promote them - I have to go back and re-invite someone in order to promote, and that is definitely confusing both for me and for the user who tends not to respond because she knows she is already a user and is then confused about why she hasn't been promoted when I said I would do so!

I didn't even have the option to invite people as "Followers" or I would have. I don't understand why roles for private blogs ought to be different from roles for all other blogs and would suggest that this difference be eliminated.

Thanks for considering!

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