you have a friend request. accept/ignore

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CarsonTheOneAndOnly 17 Aug @ 10:37am

so'n-so wants to be your friend, maybe you tried to find people online to breath life back into a fun but dead game with the instructions for people to send a friend request and now cant tell if its someone that wants to genuinely play the game or just someone from a foreign country that wants to send you suspicious scam web links you shouldn't be clicking on, maybe they just liked your whitty banter; who knows why they sent you a friend request. they certainly do but cant communicate anything because no one can send a message along with the friend request to convey even the vaguest notion of why they would want to be our friend. I cant think of any reason why this is not a basic feature. I'm relatively new to steam compared to its conception. is there any reason why we cant say, "hey I saw your post on [link to discussion page] to play [insert old dead game here] would you like to play some time?" within the event of submitting a friend request?

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cSg|mc-Hotsauce 17 Aug @ 10:42am

Originally posted by CarsonTheOneAndOnly:
you have a friend request. accept/ignore

so'n-so wants to be your friend, maybe you tried to find people online to breath life back into a fun but dead game with the instructions for people to send a friend request and now cant tell if its someone that wants to genuinely play the game or just someone from a foreign country that wants to send you suspicious scam web links you shouldn't be clicking on, maybe they just liked your whitty banter; who knows why they sent you a friend request. they certainly do but cant communicate anything because no one can send a message along with the friend request to convey even the vaguest notion of why they would want to be our friend. I cant think of any reason why this is not a basic feature. I'm relatively new to steam compared to its conception. is there any reason why we cant say, "hey I saw your post on [link to discussion page] to play [insert old dead game here] would you like to play some time?" within the event of submitting a friend request?

Mainly because they'll just send you the malicious links in the request, if there was an option to do so.

Or they'll still string you along stating they need to talk to you about something, in a vague message to get you to accept it and then start trying to scam you.

Knee 17 Aug @ 10:46am

post on their profiles if they have it public, if not, they probably don’t want random invites

Lunar Fang 17 Aug @ 10:49am

The amount of hoops people require for you to add them ad nauseam.

Then again I decline everyone anyways, even if we had a fun time in a game.

I did at one point add random people and I can tell you, I wasn't looking to be apart of people's fetishes.

asarokk 17 Aug @ 4:20pm

You could always check their post history before accepting friend requests.

miakisfan 17 Aug @ 4:28pm

Originally posted by CarsonTheOneAndOnly:
so'n-so wants to be your friend, maybe you tried to find people online to breath life back into a fun but dead game with the instructions for people to send a friend request and now cant tell if its someone that wants to genuinely play the game or just someone from a foreign country that wants to send you suspicious scam web links you shouldn't be clicking on, maybe they just liked your whitty banter; who knows why they sent you a friend request. they certainly do but cant communicate anything because no one can send a message along with the friend request to convey even the vaguest notion of why they would want to be our friend. I cant think of any reason why this is not a basic feature. I'm relatively new to steam compared to its conception. is there any reason why we cant say, "hey I saw your post on [link to discussion page] to play [insert old dead game here] would you like to play some time?" within the event of submitting a friend request?

I have no problem accepting friends until they stop acting friendly. Then they disappear off my friend's list permanently.

D. Flame 17 Aug @ 5:31pm

Never accept random invites, EVER. If they actually wanted to be your friend, they would have been talking with you on the forums first, then sent you an invite.

cSg|mc-Hotsauce 17 Aug @ 5:45pm

Originally posted by D. Flame:
Never accept random invites, EVER. If they actually wanted to be your friend, they would have been talking with you on the forums first, then sent you an invite.

The majority of people on Steam don't meet on the forums. They meet in game.

There is a vocal minority that meet people on the forums though.

D. Flame 17 Aug @ 5:51pm

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:
Originally posted by D. Flame:
Never accept random invites, EVER. If they actually wanted to be your friend, they would have been talking with you on the forums first, then sent you an invite.

The majority of people on Steam don't meet on the forums. They meet in game.

There is a vocal minority that meet people on the forums though.

:nkCool:

Same diff. If they meet you in game or IRL, then they will talk to you there first, rather than just sending you a random invite. That was my point.

cSg|mc-Hotsauce 17 Aug @ 5:54pm

Originally posted by D. Flame:
Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

The majority of people on Steam don't meet on the forums. They meet in game.

There is a vocal minority that meet people on the forums though.

Same diff. If they meet you in game or IRL, then they will talk to you there first, rather than just sending you a random invite. That was my point.

I'm only showing the difference between forums and in game. The vast majority of users never touch the forums.