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What permissions are needed for some to set an alert on a page or blog? &nbsp;For a page, it seems to be contributor, design or full control. <br />
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I have a SharePoint 2013 blog and users with contributor access to the comments can not use the alerts. &nbsp;The alert option is not visible for users with contributor permissions on comments for blogs.
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What permissions are needed for some to set an alert on a page or blog?  For a page, it seems to be contributor, design or full control. 

I have a SharePoint 2013 blog and users with contributor access to the comments can not use the alerts.  The alert option is not visible for users with contributor permissions on comments for blogs.

What permissions are needed for some to set an alert on a page or blog SharePoint 2013?

Microsoft Sharepoint is a software platform and family of software products used for collaboration and web publishing combined. These capabilities include developing web sites, portals, intranets, content management systems, search engines, wikis, blogs, and other tools for business intelligence and collaboration. SharePoint has a Microsoft Office-like interface, and it is closely integrated with the Office suite.

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A blog is a discussion or informational site consisting of discrete entries ("posts") typically displayed in reverse chronological order. Blogs can be the work of a single individual but more recently "multi-author blogs" (MABs) have developed, with posts written by large numbers of authors and professionally edited and "microblogging" systems help integrate blogs into societal newstreams.