Hi!
Despite of Geni's purpose to build a one big family tree and to keep the older generations public, I still want to keep a certain part "in my own hands". I mean that I'd like to see, which part of the World Family Tree is "mine" and somehow in my control.
I know that trees made by some users in my country are "bad" (like in other countries) and I'll try not to join to them. If you could mark different profiles in some way, I think it might help me a lot and many others too in this kind of situations.
Maybe you could draw border lines or other marks into profile boxes with different colors, like:
Green mark: profile is added or managed by me or my closest family members or my collaborators
Yellow mark: profile is added and managed by somebody else (than in green mark)
Red mark: profile is private or locked or in read-only state and curator/expert-managed (still not ready, beause of that (public) person in this profile is alive or his/her profile needs some more information)
Blue: profile is "ready" and in read-only state; only stories etc. about that person are allowed (updates by a curator)
This helps also in a situation, where an over-enthusiastic beginner (still Pro) is merging trees by accident, beginning with "only one profile" (because Geni told me to do it!) and don't understand what he/she is doing, and which kind of mess could be in result. This beginner could see the yellow mark and think, that maybe that user knows more than me... Internet is full of incorrect information, and many people, as finding any information about their ancestors, want to write it into Geni at once without any checking or criticality. And by making changes like this they could destroy a big part of some experts lifework (with information collected by spending all of their spare time in dawn and dusty researcher rooms before Internet time and digitalized historical documents).
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Different marks are important also in the pages where double-profiles are choosen and removed.
I think that for normal (non-Pro) users there is no need to use different colors except in their closest family and collaborated profiles.
Of course this is only an idea, not a ready plan or description about this issue, but what do you think, is this possible and valuable to do?
Regards,
Tuija K.
