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Adam of Eden - Claimed Historic Profile?

Started by Private User on Tuesday, November 1, 2022
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How is it possible for Adam to "Follow 1372" geni profiles?

Huh. I've never noticed that before, perhaps they were added by the person who originally made the profile?

Adam the father of the entire human species is following a boatload of profiles I am following, but have since been set to "private".

When you click on Profiles Mentioned: Adam of Eden, and than on Profiles Following 1372, it says

Followers receive recent activity updates. Profile privacy determines which updates they will receive.

1372 people are following Adam of Eden's profile, not that Adam is following 132 profiles

Statistics [for Adam of Eden]
Family Tree 84
Blood Relatives 10,000
Descendants 10,000
Followers 1,231
Following 1,372

Nearly everyone under Adam's Following (not his Followers) have been dead for many thousands of years. They're people who literally never heard of a Geni profile (or even a computer or the internet).

There is no Activity Tab, so it is not a claimed Profile. And it should not be possible for it to be Following anyone.
Definitely sounds like a bug!!

Shmuel-Aharon Kam (Kahn / שמואל-אהרן קם (קאן - any idea why he is listed as Following Profiles?
A bug, or something I am not thinking of?

I went back to his profile that he is following and it started in 2011 to present. Sounds strange! He cant follow profiles. Someone might have put a bug or hacked into Adams profile.

He is following people because a bunch of fake accounts of adam were closed and merged into the MP profile

Jason Scott Wills -

I have a relative who added profiles, then closed her account, others whose account was closed after they were reported deceased - none continue to show as Following anyone.

Dr. Earle Ullman Scharff is credited with adding many profiles (per link after Added By) - a large gedcom import was done from him back in 2009 - but he is not now shown now as following anyone

Why is an exception occurring for this one?

Private User, Jason gave the correct answer.
It's probably a glitch. If you look at Adam of Eden you'll see this profile has 297 managers. In reality this number used to be more than 500. That's an indication of how popular it is. At any given time there are probably around two dozen new Adams, most of them claimed as users. Claiming to be Adam and starting his tree seems to be people's favorite way to get started with Geni. These duplicate trees, some with 400+ profiles used to get merged into the existing trees. These days they get isolated (by Curators) and deleted (by Geni). This claimed one was created just yesterday: Adam (47 profiles added so far), and this non-claimed: Adam . (7 profiles). There are only two because I recently cleaned them all out.

A bug - ie a glitch - was what I suggested.
I thought Jason was saying not a bug.

If I am understanding, you are saying Jason was saying that having a bunch of fake accounts of adam being closed and merged into the MP profile may have caused the glitch?

Precisely.
I suppose I could ask Geni to run a sweep of historical profiles to check for such cases, but it might be difficult to sift them out of the 150 million profiles. This certainly wouldn't be of any real priority. I'll ask for Adam, at least, to be cleared.

Hi im the Adam are you gonna have my tree cleared? Sorry if I made your tree glitch

Adam yes your tree will be deleted. it is against the rules to make fake accounts

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