Unreachable manegers

Michael,

He does not respond and needs to be blocked.

If you find his profles in a merge request, unmerge them.

Kevin

Kevin just curious..what occurs when you unmerge requests??

My english is too bad, and I do not understand exactly the problem, even with
google traduction.
Could you please try to explain me in french.
Thank you.
J-Yves

Angus,

You are disconnecting his managed profiles from the tree.

Kevin

yes, i agree completely, we must block those who dont respond

Thanks Kevin..

Kevin Lawrence Hanit

He does not respond and needs to be blocked.
Dear freind
I don't understand nor him neigther you. This blocking - blocking back is a total mistake in my opinion if he has blocked you - it works both ways.
Blocking back only say - I thing you a stupid too!!

And what does it solve to unmerge - only having a profil hanging somewhere around making new problems, you can't delete it anyway, an unmerged profil is not a mistake only a not yet completed merge!!

Gunther,

I am only taking out Max's managed profiles as well as those of Michael Huntgate.

Kevin
Taking out to where??

Some of you taking about blocking those who not respond. How much time limit do you give them? If I go to holiday for 3 weeks and not respond to request, will I be blocked?

You should NEVER block people. There might be personal reasons why people don't log onto Geni every day, and blocking them also blocks them from sending you a message explaining the situation and inviting YOU as a collaborator.

You should also know that blocking people always have a boomerang effect: You also block yourself, like blocking your own access to that managers profiles.

today i had an incident with another user, they were going through my profiles changing the surnames to CAPITAL LETTERS, when i asked them politely to stop doing this they went nuts blocked me and started destroying my tree. so i think thats one legitimate block right there.

Does anyone have any form of contact with Eivind Eriksen: Eivind Fridtjof Eriksen

I have unresolved merges with his profiles since december 2009, among others, this one: http://www.geni.com/merge/compare/6000000003575251883?idx=1
(The merged by date is wrong, he was disconnected because of unresponsiveness, but the profile get connected back all the time.)

@Jason That should be reported to Geni. That's sabotage. (Not the capital letters but the destroying part.)

I just inherited 94 profiles left behind by a user who has left Geni. I requested management of them because they are relevant to not only my tree, but the big tree. I intend to do this from now on....best, I think, that we who actively and willingly collaborate and/or accept merge requests should snap them up when we can, just in case they fall into the hands of one of the unresponsive managers? What do you guys think? :)

@Lynne How did you "inherit" them? I would love to do that, as well.

I fully agree, I have gotten into the habit of always going to a profile's manager profile to see if he is still active ( looking at last time the person was online ) and also doing a request to collaborate, here it tells us if they are still active or not and then if not it gives us the option of taking over just one profile of that manager or all of them, I always choose all.

Private User,
I've been doing exactly that for several months. If you look at my stats, I manage way more profiles than I added. I'll be trying to complete a merge in my portion of the tree and notice it's an abandoned profile, so I adopt it.

Private User
When you have a search screen open and there is no one listed as manager, it's most likely an abandoned profile. Go to the far right and you'll see a "More Options" link. Click that and you'll see the request management link. Sometimes you get 1 profile, sometimes more. Once I got 1100 profiles.

If you are in a search screen and you notice at the far right that there is no links to contact manager and no manager listed, it's also likely an abandoned profile. Click on the person's name to get to their profile so you can request management.

If you are in a compare profiles screen and one of the profiles has no manager, same thing. Click on their name to get to their profile. Once you receive management, you can complete the merge.

By the way, if it's an abandoned profile, it takes less than a minute to get the profile. If it's not abandoned, you will get a message that a request has been sent to the manager. You can leave the request in and see what happens or you can go to your inbox ->requests sent and cancel the request.

Regards,
Maria

Private User
I do that my self - only if it is profiles far way of whom I do no nothing I leave them unattended hoping that someone closer will pick them up!!
In my opinion the easiest way to find them is to look for unattended profils in the familie group.

Oops, Jennifer, that should read:
When you have a PROFILE open and there is no one listed as manager, it's most likely an abandoned profile. Go to the far right and you'll see a "More Options" link. Click that and you'll see the request management link. Sometimes you get 1 profile, sometimes more.

Also wanted to share with everyone a tip for getting more info on a locked profile. Go to the nearest unlocked relative's profile. The name of the locked person will not be a hyperlink, the unlocked ones will be. Once you know the person's name you can search for the profile. Once the profile is open you can easily see if it's a Zombie, an abandoned profile or a profile locked with high privacy settings.

We are certainly on the ball, guys!! I'm over the moon here, as there is a glimmer of hope that we will eventually not have to worry about those unresponsive managers. :)) Maria, thank you.......I shall try this on those horrible profiles!! :))

Mes chers amis,
Depuis 2 jours, je reçois des mails de la part de geni pour m'informer que certains membres sont mauvais et doivent être bloqués.
Je ne comprends rien du tout à cette polémique.
Je vais donc me retirer de geni.
Je m'excuse auprès de mes chers amis qui m'ont toujours aimablement répondu, mais s'ils veulent m'écrire, ils peuvent le faire directement à mon adresse mail
jauclair1@club-internet.fr
Je souhaite à tous bon courage et vous adresse mes amitiés.
Jean-Yves

My dear friends,
For two days, I get mail from geni to inform me that some members are bad and should be blocked.
I do not understand anything in this polemic.
I will remove myself from geni.
I apologize to my dear friends who have always responded kindly, but if they want to write, they can do so directly to my email address
jauclair1@club-internet.fr
My wish for all good luck and send my regards.
Jean-Yves

Günther Kipp,

I am only removing them from the stacks. I ment to say Hungate instead of Huntgate.

I cannot delete them.

Kevin

Linda Fox shows as deceased and all her managed profiles are locked.

Private User

What can be done about this?

Vincent see: http://www.geni.com/discussions/6000000008393869938

I don't want to see anyone "punished" by blocking their tree without a day in kangaroo court. These people should be contacted by Geni and find out why they have not been cooperating. Perhaps the member does not understand, is not computer savvy, not PRO, died, etc. But they need to be straightened out and reminded of the mission of Geni - to connect the whole world tree. When this process is hindered by people using the Geni program as private software it is against the "prime directive" and has to be policed in someway by Geni. Perhaps mgmt could do this by identifying dead accounts with no activity or log-ins during a certain agreed time frame. Or designing a program to scope out accounts holding zombies, contacting these people or taking them out of the mainstream into a holding area until contact can be made.

Savely left Geni today right after I sent a bunch of merges, so I took over his way too many profiles. Please ask for management if you are inclined.

Private User do you say, that you are the manager on all Savely's profiles??

Gunther, it seems that way, which is good because there were so many overlaps with my own tree. Brox is listed as manager when you go to Savely' page, but the profiles of his all have my name as manager on them.
As I said feel free to request management of any.