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Q&A Network-wide sign in created accounts for me on all sites even though I had no accounts there beforehand

It's not the network sign-in that's created accounts for you - it's visiting the sites. When you visit a site and are signed in elsewhere, an profile is created for you on that site. So, with netwo...

posted 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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#1: Initial revision by user avatar ArtOfCode‭ · 2020-06-20T11:45:59Z (over 4 years ago)
It's not the network sign-in that's created accounts for you - it's visiting the sites.

When you visit a site and are signed in elsewhere, an profile is created for you on that site. So, with network sign-in, if you sign in on one site, whenever you visit a site that you haven't been to before, a profile is automatically created.

It would appear you haven't visited [Photography](https://photo.codidact.com) yet, as you haven't got a profile there yet: here's the raw data:

![Image alt text](https://meta.codidact.com/uploads/qwvzEPW4e2hXFxoiSqJoUyhg)

That said, you're quite right that we should do more to explain that this is what's going to happen, so I'll get something added to the sign up form to point that out.