When a new user joins and adds in his parents and grandparents, the default seems to be to make them private, even if deceased. The default should be to make them public. Users should be required to manually set profiles to private. Defaulting to public would facilitate merging, as it is easier to get a new user to accept a collaboration request than a family group invitation. And making the profiles public would increase the likelihood of finding duplicates for merging.
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Lo Strongly disagree with this - although, I see that some might like it, so asking which the person wants - OR having a place for the person to set the default might well be a good idea. From Tree View Geni does default folks far from you to Public. Having them default Living folks to Public is, in my opinion, just plain wrong. And I do not like the idea of the recently deceased being Public either.
Just as many folks who are surprised to discover their profiles are Private would in the case the default was Public be surprised to find their Profiles were Public (different folks, but probably at least as many) -- and inadvertently having put info one believes one was putting into a Private Profile into one that is Public could cause much more harm than vice versa.
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Eric Randol Schoenberg, Geni Curator If you don't make it public, you might as well not be on Geni. I can see having an individual decide if his/her own profile is public. But why let anyone have the power to decide for someone else? Who gets to make decisions for their parents, grandparents, siblings in any other context?
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Lo re: "If you don't make it public, you might as well not be on Geni." - This seems to totally ignore the fact that Geni is - or at least has regularly claimed to be - a place for family members to share family information ("Scrapbooking the lives of you, your kids, and your whole family") privately with other family members.
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Erica Howton Agree and also request the default setting for parents from the "add family from profile" view default to deceased. -
Erica Howton A public discussion here for reference http://www.geni.com/discussions/114045?msg=825492 -
Peter Rohel (c) I agree with Randy !
Let the users who want Private trees (minority) - set the Newly Higly Visible option - to Private !!
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Allan Manley I AGREE 100%..... I spend more time making "private" profiles "public"., WHY ARE THEY NOT DEFAULTING TO PUBLIC???? GENI used to listen - My Heritage appears not to!
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Imtyaz OCS AGREE Very Strongly
I've just Discovered that ALL 133 Family Members I've Added on are Private - that's why None of them have Interacted with the Family Tree in the Past 5 years.
I was hoping we could link it up with Extended Trees & Merge the All Duplicate Family Tress that Exist
Just Political Correctness taken to a Different Level of Dumb...
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Mendel Cooper (Kuperberg) I have run into this very issue recently with profile I created and with profiles of my relatives that others have created.
Profiles of persons born before 1900 should automatically default to public unless there is some compelling reason otherwise. Please, geni curators, fix this. The way things are now means that researchers cannot access profiles and that profiles that need editing and/or merging are neglected.
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