Friend request with comment

[Meatbug]

Cheers,

i don't know if that was proposed before, but how about a feature which allows you to actually send a small comment with your friend request?

Sometimes, the comments on a users profile are deactivated or the whole profile is set to private, yet ii do want to get in contact with that person or at least try with a proper reason -> i can't do that, except if i send a friend request, which some people might not accept, if it's from a random person.

So, why not adding a comment like "want to add you for [reason]" which is also displayed on the "open friend requests" page so that i at least know WHY someone added me.

Discuss...or not...or...whatever :)

EDIT:
Limited characters might be useful (around 50 maybe?)

Idea of how it could look like:
http://s1.directupload.net/images/131016/t284qxgi.png

[Black Blade]

ya it was ask but not so much... i think it will be great have so many (even more now with the 10 friends thing) that i add to ask if they need help want 10 friends or just want to bug me XD i approve these very much

[Jelly Fox]

That sounds like a good idea to me :3 As someone who sets their profile to private, I think it would be helpful for people sending requests; as well as for the people sending them.

[Ineffable Anathema]

That would be a helpful thing. I hate getting random friend requests from strangers out of nowhere. I'd like to know what their inspiration to send it to me is as I'm a very private person and I do not simply add people for no reason.

[Meatbug]

Messaggio originale di I AM SHODAN!:

That would be a helpful thing. I hate getting random friend requests from strangers out of nowhere. I'd like to know what their inspiration to send it to me is as I'm a very private person and I do not simply add people for no reason.

Thats basically why i got to this point in the first place.

I had some random invites from people, i didn't had the slightest idea why they wanted to add me ^^

In addition, you might want to add people for trading, to send them their steamgift, because you fell in love with them...whatever reason it is, but giving them a heads up WHY you want to add them.

[hot boymoders at your local ikea]

Yes, this is a very good idea. It helps you find friends out of the list of random friend requests you might get.

[Laptop]

Support. This would be nice.

[Tito Shivan]

I've seen it being suggested every now and then. And it would indeed be a neat addition.

[Nawrusi]

sounds cute!
Do it!

[Satoru]

The problem is that, this effectively becomes a conduit for spam

Friend Request-> FREE GAMEZ!!!! Click herez!!11111!11

I really really really do not need that amount of spamming. right now there's no need to spam friend requests because they generally don't accomplish anything. If friend requests now become conduits for spam, then spammers/scammers will simply create alts and spam friend requests into oblivion just to catch the 0.01% of idiots that will do something.

I dont really want to click "Ignore All Invites" every 5 minutes

[hot boymoders at your local ikea]

Messaggio originale di Satoru:

The problem is that, this effectively becomes a conduit for spam

Friend Request-> FREE GAMEZ!!!! Click herez!!11111!11

I really really really do not need that amount of spamming. right now there's no need to spam friend requests because they generally don't accomplish anything. If friend requests now become conduits for spam, then spammers/scammers will simply create alts and spam friend requests into oblivion just to catch the 0.01% of idiots that will do something.

I dont really want to click "Ignore All Invites" every 5 minutes

Who's to say they wouldn't do that with comments, or normal invites?
There's a simple solution: click block.

[Fox]

Messaggio originale di Meatbug:

Cheers,

i don't know if that was proposed before, but how about a feature which allows you to actually send a small comment with your friend request?

Sometimes, the comments on a users profile are deactivated or the whole profile is set to private, yet ii do want to get in contact with that person or at least try with a proper reason -> i can't do that, except if i send a friend request, which some people might not accept, if it's from a random person.

So, why not adding a comment like "want to add you for [reason]" which is also displayed on the "open friend requests" page so that i at least know WHY someone added me.

Discuss...or not...or...whatever :)

I'd have agreed, but....

Messaggio originale di Satoru:

The problem is that, this effectively becomes a conduit for spam

Friend Request-> FREE GAMEZ!!!! Click herez!!11111!11

I really really really do not need that amount of spamming. right now there's no need to spam friend requests because they generally don't accomplish anything. If friend requests now become conduits for spam, then spammers/scammers will simply create alts and spam friend requests into oblivion just to catch the 0.01% of idiots that will do something.

I dont really want to click "Ignore All Invites" every 5 minutes

Yep, good point. An auto-decline option addition would therefore be perfect, I guess.

[かぐや]

Only seen this feature on Xfire, Games for Windows Live and facebook. Let's see when it happens on Steam.

[Satoru]

Messaggio originale di CrashMan054:

Who's to say they wouldn't do that with comments, or normal invites?
There's a simple solution: click block.

Note that spammers don't send mass friend invites because there's no point in it. You're trying to induce behavior by making them click a link. if I was a scammer her's now I would do it

Send invite:
< url:hijacker.url/givemeyourpassword > Copy and paste this URL into a browser to accept the friend request

Presto I only need 0.01% of people to click the link, or even ocpy and paste the URL (and dont say no one will do that because a lot of registration emails tell you do this already so it's not even 'abnormal' to request that)

The poitn is the ABILITY to do it means scammers will exploit it. That means hundreds of bots spamming friend requests just to get to the 0.01% of people. Spam is about volume and the law of large numbers. That means every scammer on the planet is going to scrape the entire steamID database for friend requets

[Tito Shivan]

Messaggio originale di Satoru:

The problem is that, this effectively becomes a conduit for spam

Friend Request-> FREE GAMEZ!!!! Click herez!!11111!11

I really really really do not need that amount of spamming. right now there's no need to spam friend requests because they generally don't accomplish anything. If friend requests now become conduits for spam, then spammers/scammers will simply create alts and spam friend requests into oblivion just to catch the 0.01% of idiots that will do something.

I dont really want to click "Ignore All Invites" every 5 minutes

Main reason why we can't have nice things. :(

In any case, an account needs to be premium in order to send friend requests.

[Meatbug]

Messaggio originale di Tito Shivan:

Main reason why we can't have nice things. :(

In any case, an account needs to be premium in order to send friend requests.

Yeah, Satoru has a valid point, especially when i think about what happened to the description-field for the trade-request.

Too bad..