If you reject a friend request...

[TheAppleCore]

...does the "befriender" get a notification? I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings.

 

[tambourine-man]

I'll tell you, when you tell me 'no'...

 

[TheAppleCore]

^ REJECTED, mo' fo'.

 

[tambourine-man]

No notification that I can see.

It seems you are free to hurt people's feelings with abandon... you heartbreaker, you!

 

[Damien]

C'mon man, PLEEEAAAASSEEEE be my friend! :D

 

[Help?!?!]

...does the "befriender" get a notification? I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings.

Their going to see this thread and then everything will click in place!!!

 

[alasdairm]

what do people us the friend feature for after they've accepted people?

as far as i can tell, the feature is essentially useless.

alasdair

 

[Methadone84]

I been wondering why you didnt accept my request yet

 

[Tommyboy]

You can use it to see who on your friend list is online. You can have the list pop-up, and it will show who is on. It is under the quick links, (directly below Whats New? when you are in forum view). You can click on "open contacts pop-up." From there you can see who is online, and send a PM to them by clicking their name. You can click on more than one name at once, so you can send the same PM to a bunch of people.

Also, there is an option in your setting where you can choose to only receive PMs from mods and contacts.

what do people us the friend feature for after they've accepted people?

as far as i can tell, the feature is essentially useless.

Lets say you are in charge of the NFL predictions thread, and you post the next weeks NFL games in there. You can open the pop-up window and click on all the names of the participants (assuming you are friends with them) and send a notification PM to all of them in one go, letting them know it's time to make their picks.

It automatically groups friends and contacts together, but you can keep people as friends, but remove them as contacts. This can be used to essentially create a PM list out of your contacts.

 

[alasdairm]

^ thanks.

I been wondering why you didnt accept my request yet

i reject all friend requests automatically.

alasdair

 

[TheAppleCore]

what do people us the friend feature for after they've accepted people?

as far as i can tell, the feature is essentially useless.

alasdair

To me, it's just a way of communicating a mutual sentiment of, "hey, I appreciate your posts and presence on the forums!"

 

[Damien]

To me, it's just a way of communicating a mutual sentiment of, "hey, I appreciate your posts and presence on the forums!"

Same here. Now will you be my friend?!

Seriously though, that's how I've always seen it.

 

[amapola]

...does the "befriender" get a notification? I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings.

Just put them on your ignore list right after you reject them and you'll never notice a difference either way :D

 

[Methadone84]

^ thanks.i reject all friend requests automatically.

alasdair

i was just joking with him