diff --git a/tailbone/views/people.py b/tailbone/views/people.py
index 67c3f992..5c114d9e 100644
--- a/tailbone/views/people.py
+++ b/tailbone/views/people.py
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ class PeopleView(MasterView):
             items.append(HTML.tag('li', c=[tags.link_to(text, url)]))
         if items:
             return HTML.tag('ul', c=items)
-        elif self.request.has_perm('users.create'):
+        elif self.viewing and self.request.has_perm('users.create'):
             if use_buefy:
                 return HTML.tag('button', type='button', class_='button is-primary',
                                 id='make-user', c="Make User")