my admin status seems to apply to a blog I don’t own

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    vinelson · Member ·

    I discovered that, while logged in to my own wordpress.com account, I apparently had admin privileges on another, completely unrelated, not owned by me blog! I noticed it, because I went to leave a comment on a post at the other blog and saw that, not only were there no fields in which to put my name and email, but I was listed as logged in as an admin. I clicked that link (above the comment box) and got to the other blogger’s dashboard!

    I logged out of my account, returned to the other blog and saw what I would expect: fields for my name and email, and no indication that I was logged in as an admin.

    So why does my status as an admin for my own blog seem to persist to a blog I didn’t create and shouldn’t have any administrative access to?

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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    timethief · Member ·

    Please contact Staff directly and provide the URL for the blog in question and as many details as possible. Here’s the contact link > http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/

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    tbol3 · Member ·

    Also, note that whenever you are logged into wordpress.com, you will not see the fields on any wordpress.com blogs. However, you shouldn’t see the other persons panel, so as TimeThief says, contact staff.

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    vinelson · Member ·

    Ahhh.
    My bad, and I am pretty mortified.
    In an act of contrition, following is what I wrote to support, posted here for the benefit of future confused bloggers who are more familiar with wordpress.org than they are with wordpress.com:

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    I’m writing to apologize for any panic I may have caused.

    I have been working with a self-hosted wordpress.org site for nearly a year, but this is my first wordpress.com experience. I am more familiar with the wordpress.org behavior and appearance.

    While still logged in to our new wordpress.com blog, I followed a link to a new post on a friend’s blog (also wordpress.com).

    I went to leave a comment on that blog and noticed, above the comment text area, the following:
    “Logged in as admin»”

    Never having seen such a thing before, and thinking that was sort of odd, I clicked on “admin” and arrived at a dashboard, which, still getting used to the differences, I mistook to be the other blog owner’s dashboard.

    I repeated the steps before writing and discovered to my embarrassment that it was our dashboard, not hers. So it’s totally a matter of my not being aware of the difference between .org and .com behavior, and again I apologize for any concern this may have caused.

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    t3ck · Member ·

    Thank you for the follow up. = )

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