Forums are made for multi-direction communication with back and forth.

PMs are made for limited conversation with one person at a time.

Blogs are set up for monologing. When you can't use the forums, but you want to talk to more than one person, and you want them to be able to talk too so it isn't one-sided, what do you do?

Maybe adding users to a blog so that they can post too would work. But it isn't working. When I try to add someone, using the same email address that they gave me, and which they used when they commented on the blog, and also that they apparently use as their PC email address, I keep getting an error message:

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User not found. Please ask them to signup here first.

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It doesn't say where for them to sign up, or how. Does anyone know? Has anyone successfully added additional authors to their blogs?

I have tried adding more than one person and got the same error message. The email address is correct. I've tried lots of times.

Communication is so important, and I feel like the whole world is conspiring against me to keep me from being able to communicate. My original blog (on my own server space) had open comments and message boards, and I used to enjoy real-time conversation (chat) on my own message board. But spammers took everything over and I couldn't even find the comments from people I wanted to talk to because they were buried in spam, much of it disgusting spam. The evil spammers forced me to shut down the ways that people were able to talk to me. I don't want to monologue and wonder if anyone cares. I want people to be able to talk to me. Especially friends, but I want to be able to meet new friends too. And I want them to feel like I want to hear from them, and not make them jump through a million hoops to prove that they aren't the evil spammers.

I don't know how to make it work. But maybe if I did know how, I could at least tell them how to sign up so that they could talk to me.