With the introduction of the friends and followers update, I believe that there should be an option to convert pending friend requests into followers. My reasoning is as follows:
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[li]There is a strict friend limit in place, meaning that if we have more pending friend requests than the limit, we couldn’t possibly accept them all.[/li]
[li]If someone sent you a friend request, what qualms could they possibly have about following you?[/li]
[li]It would give us a chance to clear our pending friend requests, whilst maintaining relations with our potential friends/fans.[/li]
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It’s not right for the Friend Requester’s experience. They sent you a friend request, maybe years ago. Now suddenly they’re following you? That’s not right.
If you want to reject all those fiend requests you should use a web script written by or reviewed by someone you trust.
It’s not right for the Friend Requester’s experience. They sent you a friend request, maybe years ago. Now suddenly they’re following you? That’s not right.
If you want to reject all those fiend requests you should use a web script written by or reviewed by someone you trust. [/quote]
I don’t quite understand how it isn’t right. When the followers update was released, all current friends were turned into followers. If they had sent you a friend request already, what’s the difference between accepting their friend request before the update and having them turn into followers, versus turning them into followers after the update? I mean, if they took the time to send you a friend request, I don’t see how they’d object to following you. I’m sure I can’t be the only one that would use this option.
Edit:
Also, there’s an ignore all button, but that’s not the point of my proposal.
Sorcus did say this was a possibility, but it was not definite. Unfortunately, it made a lot of developers think what he said actually would happen for sure. In hindsight, it would have been nice if there was an announcement telling all of us to accept our requests. However, this is all in the past now, we just have to live with the way things played out.
There is currently no incentive to hit “Follow” over “Send Friend Request”. As a result, I have a bunch of friend requests from people I don’t know and I can’t really accept them because there’s a cap of 200.