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Make released profiles public and unrequestable.

Catherine Erin Serafina Liora Spiceland (Pinder)

February 13, 2011 05:17

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When releasing abandoned profiles, automatically make any profile that doesn't have a birthdate after 1880 public and remove the ability to request management.  Released profiles would remain manager-less until merged, at which time they would be managed by the person who managed the profile they were merged into. This would eliminate drama caused by users requesting management of profiles and never doing anything with them.

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  Bjørn P. Brox August 16, 2012 13:46

  Reporting works, but is is very unlikely that any action will be taken from Geni.
  

  Earlier they did release long time abandoned accounts, even autocratically by releasing public profiles after a certain time, but not any more.

  The reason is simply: We really don't know if an account really is abandoned.
  It could be as simple that someone consider their tree as complete without anything more to add and want to leave it for their grandchildren.

  In any case the private profiles would be out of range for you.

  You should however not stop reporting abandoned trees in the hope that Geni by the amount of requests might reconsider their current policy.

  If you have a relative that are not logged in for a time you can call him/her and if they are unable to recall their login information, they can send an inquiry to subscriptions@geni.com for assistance with that.

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  Jordan Eric O'Brien August 16, 2012 14:07

  Thanks Bjorn.  In my case, most of the profiles are of great- and great-great-grandparents or in a few cases the children of great-great-great-grandparents or even the children of great-great-great-great-grandparents.  So the relatives in question are distant cousins who I do not know.

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  Lo August 27, 2012 22:51

  re:  "If the profile has other interested relatives 'caring for it' as you suggest then the likelyhood is that they too will be a manager of that profile" - There is absolutely no reason to assume this is true.  In my family we never go butting in and trying to be added as a Manager when we can edit it just fine without being a Manager.  

  Jordan -   re: " If users do not want to allow the profiles of their long-dead ancestors to be merged, then why are the using Geni?  They would be better served to keep their family tree on their local computer." - Geni was established as a wonderful place to privately share family information with family members.  If it is on their local computer, they cannot do that.