Disable friend requests?

[Ian Hawke]

Is there a way to disable friend requests?

Similar to the wah discord allows you to choose message requests from from servers or friends of friends?

Getting a lot of scammers adding me lately.

[Waryth]

The reason scammers add you are through the groups you've joined. Leave all those 961 redundant groups then they won't add you anymore. They're all simply after your valuable items in your inventory searching through mutual groups and mutual friends.

Also have your inventory viewable by only your friends only as well in your settings. Only make it public during an actual trading process with someone.

Go to Steam Settings > Notification > I receive a friend notification:
- [OFF] Toast notification in the Steam Client
- [OFF] Push notification in the Mobile App

You'll never get notified about a single friend request anymore as if they're all spam. Any genuine friend requests are already mixed in with the malicious ones already. In case you want someone to add you then you'll have to resort to Friend Codes or Quick Invites.

The only true way to disable friend request is:
Reach your maximum steam friend's list level count and never level up your Steam account. This should disable your friend request as well.

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/1902-2D54-E445-59DD
If either player has reached maximum friend count, no new invites will be received or sent.

(You're level 20 and level 20's friend cap is 350 Friends Limit. Good luck finding 350 total players to make that happen.)

[Volfogg]

I never could understand why complete denial of friend inviting isn't a function here. Do I really have to actively be a jerk to everyone to avoid such requests? To get them get the message that I do not want to associate myself with anyone and definitely not 'em?

[Waryth]

Originally posted by Volfogg:

I never could understand why complete denial of friend inviting isn't a function here. Do I really have to actively be a jerk to everyone to avoid such requests?

Steam is both a Store (Market, Trading and Distributor), DRM and a Social Media platform (Video, Broadcast, Artwork and Forums).

If Steam allows blocking of entire game tags and all friend requests then that beats the whole point of it. You don't understand the app you use that's why it couldn't suit your needs and there is always a limitation and compromise of choices you have to make.

[Volfogg]

Originally posted by Waryth:

Originally posted by Volfogg:

I never could understand why complete denial of friend inviting isn't a function here. Do I really have to actively be a jerk to everyone to avoid such requests?

Steam is both a Store, DRM and a Social Media platform.

If Steam allows blocking of entire game tags and all friend requests then that beats the whole point of it. You don't understand the app you use that's why it couldn't suit your needs and there is always a limitation and compromise of choices you have to make.

So I DO have to actively alienate people myself, because the platform won't bother to do that for me.

Got it.

[Waryth]

Originally posted by Volfogg:

So I DO have to actively alienate people myself, because the platform won't bother to do that for me.

Got it.

You spend your time yapping here when you could do all the solution I provided in the very first post and never have to deal with any of the problems in the future.

You have massive skill issue.

[Volfogg]

Originally posted by Waryth:

Originally posted by Volfogg:

So I DO have to actively alienate people myself, because the platform won't bother to do that for me.

Got it.

You spend your time yapping here when you could do all the solution I provided in the very first post and never have to deal with any of the problems in the future.

You have massive skill issue.

I do put lot of effort, so people will finally understand that they are - in fact - HATED.
Very much. By me. Day after day. It has to stick eventually.
I sit at zero friends for almost 10 years already. I'd rather have it to stay that way.
It's hard to be antisocial nowadays.

[Ted]

Bro... over 900 groups joined lol... why?!

Yeah the bro pointing out this is likely a source of your problems is right on the money. Join all the groups you want but I don't know how any one person can possibly interact with this many groups in a meaningful way either