Removing Surplus Administrators Is Not A Formality

In the not so distant past, there was always the possibility that some blogger would, in the process of cleaning up the complement of blog administrators in Settings - Permissions, manage to remove herself (himself) from the list. If that blogger was, as in many cases, the only administrator, you'd next see his (her) post

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in Blogger Help Forum.

Sometime later, Blogger fixed that design flaw, and made the Settings - Permissions wizard check the list before removing any selected administrator. Now, any account that is the sole administrator cannot be removed from administrator status. There will always be at least one administrator.

Yet some bloggers still manage to lock themselves out of the house. In the process of changing from one administrator to another (as in transfer of control), there is occasionally the temptation to leave the old administrator in place, as a backup. With the old administrator in place as a backup, occasionally someone may lose track of his senses, and remove her (his) current (newly assigned) account from the list.

If the old administrator is now non functional (as will happen with unused accounts), the blog is now left with merely one non functional administrator account. And, nothing to do but post

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in Blogger Help Forum.

Removing the old address may seem like a formality, but here we see that it's more than that. It's a necessary safety strategy.

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