I have commented recently in the Collaboration Pool discussion ( http://www.geni.com/discussions/74031?msg=803919 ) that people continue to post @yourname in that thread.
While it is simple enough for us to Unfollow, there is a chance that those people who post in this way are not actually joining the current project and so missing out on the benefits.
The most reasonable explanation i can think of for this is that there are two sets of instructions on the project page. While i do not find the reason behind this confusing it is possible that non-native English speakers may be confused.
I propose removing the following section from the project page:
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Greetings all...
One of the most frustrating/irritating thing about geni (for me) is the time consuming nature of trying to get enough permissions to fix many areas of the tree.
I, currently, have 398 collaborators... a number it's taken me more than a year to accumulate, and I still run into large areas where I have no permissions to work in.
So I propose a solution to this, in this very thread.
My solution is simple... post here with "@yourname" to indicate your willingness to join the "Collaboration Pool".
The rules are simple: 1.) if you post here, you are indicating your willingness to accept any collaboration request from anyone else who posts here 2.) before you can send a collaboration request from someone in this thread, you *MUST* post your name here (reciprocity) 3.) you may remove your name at any time by deleting your post 4.) you must respect the deleted posts as 'out of bounds' (ie., *DO NOT* send a request to a user who has deleted their post here) 5.) a post in this thread *without* the "@yourname"... is *NOT* an entrant in this pool
If enough people join in this effort, we can, rapidly, remove many of the prior barriers to fixing this mess.
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I am willing to make he change but i wanted to seek some consensus here first.
Give me your opinions fellow Genies.
