Idea for bots spamming friend request.

[Lilyarel]

If your request gets denied, you cant send another to that person for another several hours.

[MiniTofu]

No that's bad idea, what if you accident deny a real friend. You can't allow him to send any mail or etc for hours. Just blacklist that bot.

Others option is to turn off friend invite. We need some function like in Facebook, privacy control in-game.

/busy

[Waeksyn]

The best suggestion I've seen is to have a feature that allows you to filter /tell and friend requests based on the level of the sender. Set this to level 50 and you won't get bothered anymore by the disposable, level 1 gil selling bots. Adding a white list feature to exclude those on your friend list, FC, etc. would make it perfect.

[Amatsuhira]

Sadly with the current setup you'd have to start by stripping Trial accounts of most of their rights starting with mail until 10 and no messages until 10 either, that is of course unless this is in place already. We'd be better off if you SE were willing and or able to put in-game GM bots into the game that actually tally multiple results like reports and in game complaints and automatically send people to gm prison where they can be identified and dealt with afterwards by an actual person from tech support. Much easier to do than an anti hack system.
This is all assuming that SE themselves aren't the RMT's

[Lilyarel]

No that's bad idea, what if you accident deny a real friend. You can't allow him to send any mail or etc for hours. Just blacklist that bot.

Others option is to turn off friend invite. We need some function like in Facebook, privacy control in-game.

/busy

Thats why you dont mindlessly reject friend requests? Unless your friend is "uwduqselleigil efnwecomwqdhnqwui" Then you should be fine.

[Evergrey]

Thats why you dont mindlessly reject friend requests? Unless your friend is "uwduqselleigil efnwecomwqdhnqwui" Then you should be fine.

But there are those times when people might accidently press the wrong button. Atleast that was how I understood MiniTofu's comment.

[saber_alter]

No that's bad idea, what if you accident deny a real friend. You can't allow him to send any mail or etc for hours. Just blacklist that bot.

Others option is to turn off friend invite. We need some function like in Facebook, privacy control in-game.

/busy

if you deny their request, just send them a request yourself.

i don't see any issue with it being a one-way no.

[RiceisNice]

Thats why you dont mindlessly reject friend requests? Unless your friend is "uwduqselleigil efnwecomwqdhnqwui" Then you should be fine.

Considering the current friend request requires you to actually go into the Social > friend list window and right clicking their name to decline it because for some stupid-ass reason simply clicking no doesn't, I find it incredibly hard to "accidentally decline a friend request"

[Zfz]

Limit friend requests to face-to-face interaction within 10 meter radius, and any party to the request leaving the range automatically cancels the request completely (i.e. not even leaving a record in your friend list) similar to how trade requests are handled.

This permanently invalidates any kind of friend request advertising.

[Whiston]

As others have said, you have to purposely decline friend requests.

It's a hell of a lot easier to accidentally accept a friend request than it is to decline it.
And, in the event this was implemented, if you are completely absent minded enough to accidentally click "no", retrieve your friends list and then accidentally decline them a second time, then you could simply send them the friend request in return.

In before "What if they accidentally go through the arduous process of declining my friend requests on accident also".
(Sometimes I wonder how these people tie their shoes in the morning)