Once a upon a time, not long ago, there was a board meeting at Geni Headquarters.
They discussed the horrible fact that for an extended period of time "President of Geni-World" = Toomas Hendrik Ilves from a tiny country in Northern Europe, Barack H. Obama is a close second, but for heavens sake, this needs to be changed.
First, this is due to the snowball effect of {user} is related to {top-100-profile} notifications in Recent Activity. There's a brilliant way to stop most Estonians being listed in http://www.geni.com/popular - make it for MPs only and the visits and top ranks will be reduced.
Second, create a distraction, instead of (local and therefore insignificant) celebrity relatives, show {user} is now following {targets} to compensate for the loss of graphical elements from news feed.
Third, rename the list of 'popular' profiles to 'notable/popular' and make it static based on what Geni staff consider interesting. OK, maybe not totally static, but stop it being a dynamic list reflecting the number of visits to a profile. Take away time slice of 7 days to show profiles with most recent visitors that gave an equal chance to any newly popular profile. Now only a random and time consuming permission of a curator grants the right to be notable.
Here you go, no more annoying E-stonans in top 1-25. Some may have been converted to MPs and appear occasionally in the new popular 500, but it's not as bad as it was on 29 September 2010 when:
All time popular 1-25 (8, 32%):
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Ivo Linna
Mart Laar
Lydia Koidula
Ülle Lichtfeldt
Georg Ots
Evelin Ilves / Lambot
Konstantin Päts
26-50 (3, 12%):
Maire Aunaste (Ütt)
A. H. Tammsaare
Elmo Nüganen
51-75 (5, 20%):
Uku Suviste
Betti Alver
Reet Linna
Anne Reemann
Taavi Peetre
76-99 (5, 20%):
Oskar Luts
Arnold Rüütel
Jaan Tõnisson
Tarmo Pihlap
Siim Kallas
A total of 21 out of 99 (for some reason it's called top 100 but only showing 99).
Country with 0.02% out of total world population had achieved 1 in 3 among top 25 and 1 in 5 among top 100 in Geni?
Finally the invasion is over !
