Why some people don't accept friend requests ?

[druuu]

Sounds simple, but some people just ignore the friend request.

I get that maybe you just don't want any friends or maybe you're a high tier trader with a very valuable inventory and don't want to encounter any scammers I understand that, but still, accept the damn request, see what the person wants and delete them afterwards.
You never know what the person adding you wants.

Even if they are a scammer, just delete them and move on.
Whenever I get a request I always wonder what they're adding me for.
Sure I've seen some people try and scam me but I delete them and move on.

So to people who don't accept requests, why ?

Reason I'm making this is because I've seen lots of people that don't even have their comments enabled just straight up ignore the request, making it impossible to get in contact with.
And no they weren't high tier traders. y tho

[Had Matter]

I wouldn't accept him because of faked TF2 achievements, that's a no-no.

[IL PALLINO]

dru님이 먼저 게시:

So to people who don't accept requests, why ?

For me, I became less inclusive after a game's "developer" made a troll account and used it to send me a friend request for the sake of harassing me for writing a negative review of his game. (A game that was made with stolen pictures.)

Since then, I've laid out some rules on the top of my profile instructing people what to do if they intend on sending me a friend request, and to date, two people didn't follow those rules... One of those rules was to just say something to me on my profile, and apparently, it *IS* too hard for some people to talk. (Even in the age of Google Translate!)

[Cassidy]

Because I'm tired of having randoms with no friends in common trying to add me and then pester me in private messages.

[IL PALLINO]

Sylfr님이 먼저 게시:

I'm tired of having randoms with no friends in common trying to add me and then pester me in private messages.

That's interesting. I've only ever unfriended people because they never said anything to me. What sort of pestering did these random Steam users do? Was it annoying because they tried to talk to you in the middle of games? Were the people asking you to give them free stuff? Or did their words cross certain boundaries? (Particularly boundaries of good taste.)

[AdahnGorion]

Sylfr님이 먼저 게시:

Because I'm tired of having randoms with no friends in common trying to add me and then pester me in private messages.

I don't actually think anyone would dare that.. You seem to have a temper and with my knowledge on you here on the forum I would fear your rage.

[Kargor]

dru님이 먼저 게시:

So to people who don't accept requests, why ?

There's generally no reason for them to send a friend invite. If, for whatever reason, they think they have to tell me something, they can leave a comment on my profile.

[Xite >X< 👁️👁 🇦🇺]

Some have full friends lists, some have enough for them, some just don't, some block you, people do what they like, not what you like.

[Magillanica Lou Mayvin]

Because Sir, most of us don't use Steam as an alternative form of Facebook, Ok? We couldn't care less that someone wants to invite us to their friend list without having anything in common with us. And even if they did. This ain't facebook. I for one ain't here to make friends, I'm here to play games.

[AustrAlien2010]

Perhaps because they are already friendly towards you, and adding you to their profile does not make much sense.

[SeansShow]

Mostly the same as everyone else, saw you unsubscribed your own thread so hope I don't offend you by answering honestly but in my case it's mostly because they have no reason to add you.

A percentage of them are just adding because they want something it's either begging or someone adding to trade their copy of Brilliant Bob for your £40 game, they then hop over to a keyreseller and sell for profit - to them you're a route to profit, they know their offers are junk but literally have no shame, we have a term for this here, it's called brass necks.

A percentage are mutes, never say anything never comment on anything so why add people. A percentage are scammers, recently compromised accounts and long term scammers which despite being mass reported and known as scammers never get full community banned.

A percentage are VAC'd / game banned / SAM abusers, I play games legit here, can't stand cheaters in my games or toxic people so when I see that I've no interest, guilty by association and all that.

A percentage don't have activity on their accounts or play games, there better off looking for friends on Facebook. A percentage have private profiles, how can you or why would you add someone when you know nothing about them.

When I add it's mostly have we played together before, do I know you from a community? There's no snobbishness involved because heck how can you be someones friend when you think you're better than them or beneath them.

I hate those profiles on Steam with huge sets of rules for there "friends", there absolute cringe, I'd love to see how these people interact with people IRL, this isn't what im about but I guess to answer your question the main reason people decline your friend add is because there are so many people that don't add with that simple sincerity of ours which is looking for friends, people to talk to, people to game with and their friendliness gets tarred by the other garbage that goes on in this platform. Don't take it personally man.

[Necrius]

With this thread OP proved that accepting friend invites from random people is likely to get you an annoying character like himself and not worth bothering with.

[76561198001062896]

because i have no use or need to clutter my friendslist with people that i dont know or interact with.

I mean if some people wanna play catch them all with their friendslist, more power to them, but i dont see the appeal.

[Overseer]

I think the much more important question is "why do people send friend requests?"
I had my fair share of bots and accounts that made no sense to me. From my experience any participation on steam forums increases random requests. Which of course all ended up on my ignore. It was simply evident they had nothing in common.

[KiRA]

Because people are different just because you love to socialise doesent mean everyone else does. Never look things soley on your prospective.

[Gs]

Simple i only add people that i like, and i do NOT accept random invites