CUNY Academic Commons

Hi Boone and Ray,

I recently set up a group and a site for a course I'm teaching on the Commons -- https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/approachingdh/ and https://approachingdh.commons.gc.cuny.edu/

Tonight, in class, some of the students told me they had put up blog posts, and I realized I had never received notifications of them. After looking into it, I believe that the reason for this is that I selected the following privacy setting:

I would like to block search engines, but allow normal visitors

Instead of this one:

I would like my site to be visible to everyone, including search engines (like Google, Bing, Technorati) and archivers

when I created the group.

Can you please confirm that this is the case? (I just changed the settings to the latter setting, btw)? If so, I really think we need to update the privacy instructions and options to make the ramifications of such choices clear, as I was really surprised not to receive notifications of blog posts