Please let me block friend requests

I'm getting rather tired of having to decline friend requests from people who are obviously gil sellers and then blacklist them.

Yeah it's becoming a huge issue on Behemoth right now. The process of declining a friends request and blocking the person is very inconvenient. I can tolerate the /tell spam to some degree but the friends requesting is intolerable and unacceptable. Once it starts happening I need to put busy up or face the consequences.

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Originally Posted by Landonian

Oh look another thread suggesting this stupid idea that will cause more harm than good.

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Why would it cause more harm than good? Random friend requests, even from legit players, aren't always welcome.

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Originally Posted by Landonian

Oh look another thread suggesting this stupid idea that will cause more harm than good.

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Please explain how an OPTIONAL and toggleable auto-decline of all friend requests is a bad thing? Then explain how turning it on does "more harm than good" when 99% of all friend requests are gold spammers with a badly written URL as a name.

SE shouldve added this (among other anti-spam measures) a long time ago...

Or you could just get 200 friends and cap the friends list then they can't send friend request and if you want to add a new friend just delete one of the 200.

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Originally Posted by Landonian

Oh look another thread suggesting this stupid idea that will cause more harm than good.

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Oh look, another gil seller posting stuff that doesn't make sense so he can go against stuff that would stop his annoying attempts at getting others to buy gil...

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Originally Posted by Neuflune

Why would it cause more harm than good? Random friend requests, even from legit players, aren't always welcome.

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I want this feature. Random friend requests are never welcome, even from legit players. Ask first, and if I know who you are, I'll accept.

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Originally Posted by Kota_Foxfrey

Or you could just get 200 friends and cap the friends list then they can't send friend request and if you want to add a new friend just delete one of the 200.

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I'm getting close to this point. I have about 40 friend requests waiting on confirmation, almost all with the same first name coincidentally. After that builds up to cap my friend list, I'll wait a week or two to make sure those people don't log back in, then accept them all.

There should be an option to turn off friend requests or something else to block those ridiculous friend requests from all those gold sellers. It's really annoying lately.

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Originally Posted by Elusana_Celah

Yeah it's becoming a huge issue on Behemoth right now.

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Somehow I haven't noticed. Gotten like 4 or 5 rmt friend requests total. Not callin you a liar or w/e, maybe we just play at different hours or something, but neither of us can really speak with any authority regarding the overall server trends.

It is still annoying how many needless clicks and menus there are for declining, though. Not sure why they haven't changed that.

You technically can block friend request by turning on busy mode, /busy.

However, that also blocks party invites and tell replies.

Am I the only one who stopped bothering? When I get a friend request I just ignore it (retail jobs have made me masterful at ignoring request from others) and eventually it goes away. Like... less than ten minutes. There may also be a UI ability to hide the pop up, going to see tonight.

It's just become my method of dealing with RMT.

Yeah the friend invites are really getting annoying.. I was trying not to comment on the whole rmt issue because there are plenty others speaking on it. But repeated friend requests, every 30 seconds or 5mins depending, are annoying.