To me, clicking "No" means I don't want to accept a friend request.

I don't understand how that's different from "Decline friend request" in the friends list, and why the request even appears there; meaning I have to also right click on it, choose decline, and click another confirmation box to finally decline the request.

Would it be possible to stop those requests from going to the friends list as pending or whatever it is, if someone clearly presses No? Perhaps the current functionality would be necessary if there was also a countdown timer on friend requests and it got missed.

Was anything like this suggested before?