Why did my attempt to create a second administrator for a WP blog fail?

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  musicdoc1 · Member · Nov 29, 2011 at 8:41 am

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  I’m trying to get the site jcash1.wordpress.com from another WP account of mine (Shadowshift) into my primary account as well. The invite from Shadowshift was sent to Musicdoc1 and I received it. But the acceptance failed. When I clicked the acceptance button I was taken to the “Blogs I follow” page. Why? There I was told

  Your subscription could not be activated, it may have expired

  I wasn’t even attempting to subscribe. I just want Musicdoc1 to be an administrator of the blog jcash1.wordpress.com. Why has WordPress.com made this so difficult to accomplish?
  Blog url: http://songbook1.wordpress.com/

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  musicdoc1 · Member · Nov 29, 2011 at 9:03 am

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  This issue was resolved, mostly. I hadn’t changed the user setting from the default “follower” to “administrator.” But I still don’t know why the follower invite failed.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Nov 29, 2011 at 6:51 pm

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  Sending it as a Follower is just inviting a subscriber, that’s why it followed that path.

  The links do expire in time, but sometimes they may not work too. Re-sending usually fixes that.