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I hope those who have tried to become "friends" with me aren't upset that I haven't always accepted their requests. I only accept them if they are from relatively active members on the board and at least up some products free or paid and/or occasionally participate in chats or with the Art Showcase. How do other members handle their requests for friendship?
I'm not sure of the etiquette and rejecting requests seems a bit like "fuck off" so I just leave them pending so as not to piss-off anyone.
Edit: Just got one now from someone who has only ever DL and sent out friend requests... so that's another pending.... sorry.
Rejection-I was afraid of that Eve. I still don't know what the whole friendship thing is about. To me it seems like some Grade 4 BFF groupie thing.
yeah, i don't see any harm in accepting them. there's no downside, so why to be picky ... we don't really know each other here anyway and i see no reason in making others feel unwelcome.
So it looks like I was being mean, perhaps even a tad judgmental. So I'll be gratuitous for the sake of it from now on..... no skin off my nose.
relax, it's completely up to each one how to handle that, so don't blame yourself. this entire friendship stuff is just a little gimmick anyway ... 😉
If someone I don't know asks me to be friends, I just refuse. That's because I am just mean. Sorry not sorry 🤣🤣
I don't mind - it doesn't do much of anything, and it's not like someone is going to scarf up a zillion points by doing it.
To each their own - no judgement from here. 🙂
staff could introduce an additional option to add »enemies« if that is more to the liking of some. XD
i believe »friends« is a misnomer taken from visage livre, maybe contacts would be more accurate. then again, a large part of life has been taking place online for a few decades, so online friendships are not a completely outrageous or unlikely thing.One of my friends met his current RL wife playing WoW.
I use to keep track of friends because I would send them content at no charge.
Now that my participation has slackened I dont keep up with it.
I use to not accept them to keep my friends section less cluttered but now it makes little difference other than getting a small point boost.
If things go back to where the community is more about the community then it will matter more to me and Ill clean out some of them.I have two pending. but ever since someone stole some private info off Instagram and then took over my Facebook profile I've been leery of accepting any friends request.
Lately I've been seeing friend requests that look a lot more like the work of bots than human beings--a day-old account with 200+ friends, subscribed to every group, and an activity log that shows it basically just went through the entire membership list (gained by scraping the forums and posts, probably) and sent out friend requests to everyone it could find.
Presumably it's some sort of script people are running to game the points system, maybe hoping to do so from dozens of bot accounts that farm the points and transfer them to a single account. Doesn't seem worth the trouble on a small scale, but maybe with bot aggregation it's worth something to somebody *shrug*.
I use it to loosely track who I've had fruitful interactions with. It's especially helpful if a member changes their username.
I ignore or deny the many requests from new members who haven't contributed. I can't imagine anyone having their feelings hurt.
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