Read-Only Profile
I recently found a read-only profile. Hugh Williamson (1735–1819) • L657-T36
I've never seen one before. Is there any information regarding what the intended purpose is? Any explanation or info on why and how a profile is given this status?
I would find it useful on several of my brickwall ancestors who have multiple and repeated changes made to proven information and relationships. The individuals who are making these changes have been contacted many times in attempts to educate them on the use of sources and to ask them to stop making unsupported changes. It appears that every time they want to print their tree information, they make the same changes to conform to their unproven tree information, then just leave their mess for others to clean up.
These contributors do not seem to care or notice the disruption they are causing. Repeated contact and warnings threatening report of abuse has had no effect. I don't want to report them, if they will just stop, but it has been going on for about four years. Read-only status appears to be a solution to the problem, but I fear that these disruptive contributors will just create new duplicates in order to satisfy their need to build an unsupported tree of fiction.
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Read Only is usually reserved for historical figures or church founders/pioneers.
Have you tried the new option to add an Alert to the profile?
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Thank you for pointing out the alert feature. I have not used the new person pages and did not know about that option. The alert doesn't show up on the old person page and only one alert is allowed. Appears to be another way to attempt to slow down the oblivious masses.
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See the discussion I started yesterday asking what can be done about uncooperative people. The Alert seems like a way to at least get people to think twice before making the same old unsourced, fact-challenged changes to profiles. How about making them read the entire Note and check a box at the end before they can edit the profile. They certainly aren't reading the Life Sketches , Sources or Notes I've been adding to keep people from making nonsensical changes. This should also be added to the old profile page.
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Just putting up signs to be ignored, but we do what we can.
I think the user agreement needs to be more specific so that abuse would include "the same old unsourced, fact-challenged changes" and make it more of an honor code. Abuse is not just language, it is a careless, irresponsible attitude.
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