Disable friend requests - New privacy features

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Blade Runner Jul 10, 2023 @ 4:20am

Disable friend requests - New privacy features

Greetings,

I get friend requests from fake/low level profiles on a weekly basis which becomes very annoying. It would be greatly appreciated if new privacy features could be introduced, granting us the ability to select who is permitted to send friend requests.

For example you could have the following options : Everyone, friends of friends, mutual steam groups only, by steam friend code only, and disable friend requests completely.

There is a huge solicitation problem on steam and it's usually related to people trying to scam or beg for skin/items It should be our right to choose who is able to contact us.

Last edited by Blade Runner; Sep 20, 2023 @ 2:33pm

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GridNom XP Jul 10, 2023 @ 4:56am

Dayum boi, what has caused you so much hate that you want a feature to disable friend requests?
Humans are social animal, they need to talk here n there. This feature will push steam back to primitive age.

Blade Runner Jul 10, 2023 @ 5:33am

That's why it's called an option and is not enabled by default. It's for those that don't want to socialize through steam,there are other places to do that. I just want to play games and have fun. I don't like getting random friend requests.

Last edited by Blade Runner; Jun 12, 2024 @ 8:01am

Elucidator Jul 10, 2023 @ 8:05am

Honestly, I'd also like to see something like that.
Getting friend requests from random people on the forum or where-ever is bothersome.

A single post isn't enough to make me trust them into letting them follow my activity or updating some 3rd party 'steam profile website' with now my info there, or whatever I didn't give concent t, but now have to make an account for, give them more information as a result in order to get them to throw my details away. (just naming an example)

Unfortunately there are people who take advantage of other people's weaknesses, or message (make Steam throw a pop up) during games. Both are unwanted.

Steam is just a DRM / Launcher; it forces us to make accounts to make use of games using its platform and services, legally at least, and we want to be a good citizen, reward developers for games, promote them making better games, etc. So, it is very buggy that it comes with all the stuff we didn't automatically ask for, such as needing a social profile people can 'befriend'.

Discord is worse on the whole pop up thing I mentioned though, since you can disable it, but then you cannot log off or the settings reset.
Sigh-.

Anyway, I think people have many reasons for not wanting to be friends with random people.
If I help someone on the forum or agree with them on something, that doesn't mean I want to be involved with them or become their therapist or personal PC aid service.

Last edited by Elucidator; Jul 10, 2023 @ 8:24am

Hesti Jul 10, 2023 @ 8:06am

Absolutely, I see no reason this shouldn't be a feature.

Hesti Jul 10, 2023 @ 8:07am

Originally posted by GLord XP:
Dayum boi, what has caused you so much hate that you want a feature to disable friend requests?
Humans are social animal, they need to talk here n there. This feature will push steam back to primitive age.

Not everyone wants to socialize on Steam. I consider myself a social person, but Steam isn't where I go to do that.

peppermint hollows Jul 10, 2023 @ 8:07am

Originally posted by Hesti:
Absolutely, I see no reason this shouldn't be a feature.

The Commendatore Jul 10, 2023 @ 8:22am

Originally posted by Hesti:
Absolutely, I see no reason this shouldn't be a feature.

Lily McFluffy Butt Jul 10, 2023 @ 8:35am

I want this feature so badly. I don't use Steam for friends anymore, it's always Discord.

Originally posted by Hesti:
Absolutely, I see no reason this shouldn't be a feature.

Tito Shivan Jul 10, 2023 @ 8:48am

Originally posted by GLord XP:
Dayum boi, what has caused you so much hate that you want a feature to disable friend requests?

I guess you never were around at the worst of the friend invite spam wave.

That said Not everybody comes here for the social aspects of Steam. For those it's an annoyance to receive request after request of strangers.

Lilim Jul 10, 2023 @ 9:05am

Originally posted by Hesti:
Absolutely, I see no reason this shouldn't be a feature.

One reason would be that you could miss a friend request from Lilim

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Blade Runner Jul 10, 2023 @ 9:20am

Originally posted by Lilim:
One reason would be that you could miss a friend request from Lilim :scteasinglilim:.

I'm sure you can find other ways for guys to simp for you

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Blade Runner Jul 10, 2023 @ 10:02am

It seems that the majority of people want this feature to get implemented. How can we forward it to a steam developer and see what they think about it?

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wuddih Jul 10, 2023 @ 10:37am

Originally posted by Kiddiec͕̤̱͋̿͑͠at 🃏:
Originally posted by Blade Runner:
... by steam friend code only ...
This part is a good idea that I've thought they should add for a while.

here are your both friend codes:
159775901
32977726

that is public information.
edit for the genuises: the friend code is an alternative for any links as those may get filtered elsewhere. there will be no change to it.

bye.

Last edited by wuddih; Jul 10, 2023 @ 11:10am

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Blade Runner Jul 10, 2023 @ 10:41am

Originally posted by wuddih:
Originally posted by Kiddiec͕̤̱͋̿͑͠at 🃏:
This part is a good idea that I've thought they should add for a while.
here are your both friend codes:
159775901
32977726

that is public information.

bye.

Yeah no sh*t, thanks hackerman. They could make friend codes private if you set your profile to this option only...

Last edited by Blade Runner; Jul 10, 2023 @ 10:44am

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