[Rapunzel]

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.

[pachyderm]

We seem to be on the verge of having to resort to blogs to be heard (at least in semi-"public.")

[Perna]

It's my experience that you can only add people who have a blog of their own; it's the "blog" community.

[DocClyde]

Wish I could help you there Rap...I put mine up, and barely have messed with it since then

[(JD)]

I'm just totally confused.

I have a blog, and anyone can make a comment to something I've put up. I screen it first, but... same difference.

What exactly are we discussing here?

[Perna]

She wants to allow others to blog in her blog :-) not just comment about what she blogs. Look at your "users" and you can add other people and even give them admin priviledges in your blog if you want. However, they have to already be signed up to have their own blog, be part of the PC blogging community. Since you have to register for a blog, that's the only registration the blog software knows; that blog registration, not the PC registration.

But you can make your blog your own private "forum" that way, turning off comments and/or viewing or whatever combination if you only want your group to see and talk together.

[DocJohn]

Yes, the simple way is to ask for the users you want to add to ensure they have an account over at the PC blog site:

http://psychcentral.net/signup/

One of the options during signup is to just register a new account, or get a blog. If your users don't want their own blog, they should choose "Just a username, please." Once they're registered, you can add them to your blog to create a community blog.

DocJohn

[Rapunzel]

Thanks.