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🤔 hmm, maybe it's a wise decision not to accept just everyone. i have only a couple added and never got requests from empty profiles or spammers, so i didn't saw it as a problem. but i think in the future i will keep an eye on it, don't want to support any spammers.
I make it a habit only to accept friend requests from people I have shared stuff with or who have shared stuff with me. Anyone without a profile image, or less than 6 months old on the site, I will not accept. As a Moderator I have no interest in being spambombed.
Since the system's "TO" field in PMs is broken, it used to present me the names of people I was friends with, so I didn't have to look up their original names, but since the last huge update - that is now totally borked and shows me nothing, hence I need to look up every name, and add them manually when distributing stuff. So there isn't really much of a point in having friends here, since the feature is pretty much useless anymore. Only to show me a "FEW" Friends currently online, but that is it.
Cheers,
AnjaBear"Doesn’t seem worth the trouble on a small scale, but maybe with bot aggregation it’s worth something to somebody *shrug*."
This is the funny part. It reminds me of the old point-farming bots they used to have in World Of Warcraft... where someone would spend a ton of real life effort exploiting code and doing it for imaginary points. Only difference is, in WoW they were able to at least sell the resulting character for enough money to make the effort profitable.
A person in Tech can get paid over $100 USD/hr for similar coding/maintenance efforts, but instead they're using that effort to net the equivalent of maybe $20 USD/hr worth of stuff, given the amount of points a friendship request grants, plus the time it takes for someone to accept one.
I'll give Monk and the gang a lot of credit for making a friendship thing only a small token of points. That was actually pretty wise.
Really, the whole point to having a "Friends" function on a social platform is to supply content channels.
You're supposed to get activity notifications from Friends, Followers, or Subscriptions that you wouldn't normally get from the general population.In that spirit, I only accept requests from folks who are clearly active, who may have some kind of activity I might be interested in.
If I see joined 2 days ago, and has zero activity other than log in and harvest friends for points, hard pass. Nothing personal, just... post something!!"...staff could introduce an additional option to add »enemies« if that is more to the liking of some." @Ducksick. Yeh I took that as a joke. The Arnold Rimmer approach wouldn't be conducive to site harmony.
I use it to keep track of those who regularly post content, or those I see making requests for items I fill.
I'm like @Anjabear in which I normally don't accept requests from people who are not active in posts and seem like dummy accounts with no avy or profile, sporadically adding friends. My alarm goes off and I look at the request like...
I assume the random requests are bots so I haven't accepted any of them. Unexpected Black Books, what an awesome show though 😀
@ethiopia In that case.. there shouldn't be an option to accept or reject the friendship.. 'cos I'm actually buying.. 🙂
Better still.. we could also have a subscription model where each person could specify their friendship points.. that would definitely deter the friendship requests 😉
Yep- just had that one as well.. 🙂
What do you guys think of optional video ads? People that are low on points can choose to watch a set amount of ads per day and get points for each ad viewed.
I think it has some positives and negatives. On the positive side it can help retain members, pay for the website hosting, possibly generate a good profit, and if the admin wants, a portion can be used to buy some stuff to post to the blog.
On the negative side, it deters members getting proactive in generating points through sharing and reuploading dead posts. It can also be abused to farm points, so perhaps just have it show a post's download link.
What is the purpose of having "friend" lists here anyway? Why not just give each user a "frequent contacts list" they can add or remove from. They can then easily find who they need to find.
Alternatively, for a quick fix, simply limit the amount of friends that can be added per to a low number. Real humans normally do not add bunches daily, probably very rarely.
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