Quote Originally Posted by Nilla3321 View Post
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I still to this day don't know why we have to open up our friends list to completely decline the request.

Though broadening on your 2nd option. How about just not allowing anyone with the new leaf symbol to send friends requests but they can still receive them? We know these spam bots get either deleted or locked down before the 30 days are up for them to have the new leaf symbol automatically removed.