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Thanks Killah!
I'd wager they are either scammers, or people who were impressed by my arguments in discussions and felt like I was a kindred spirit.
It is a bit worse with the bugs for the new UI. I can't go and see pending invites and it does not reflect it on their profile page either.
I'm sure steam could limit the invite message to exclude clickable links, character types and character limit. There could also be a simple Report&Block button for spam or potentially misleading invites.
The bare truth is though; if people are naive enough to openly follow a link from an unknown person without any care (even taking the time to copy and paste the link), then what stops those same people from falling victim to the current system of adding the unknown friend and then simply receiving a dangerous clickable link via chat? In other words, if someone doesn't know how they can fall victim, then they're gonna find themselves in the same position no matter what. All the current system is doing, is limiting trust and discussion between potentially true steam friends before they even add eachother...
I've had 6+ friend requests that I have no clue who they are or where I possibly played games with them, so I recently started deleting most of the obviously weird ones, and now I'm down to only two... I do wish I could send them messages though without writing on their profile.
The current system imo, despite being built for protection, only goes to be ineffective at protecting people from scammers and hinders actual users from easily knowing who they're adding to their friends list.
Btw, all the time I see other users with comments on their profile that read.. "You sent me a friend invite, but who are you?"... which means that person would have to play tag going back and fourth on each others profile to have a simple greetings before adding oneanother, which is a severely outdated method that requires the later deletion of unnecessary comments from your profile... all of which should simply be intergrated into the invite system directly.
Sorry for writing a lot on this discussion btw; this is just something that I have found bothersome since forever.
If somebody does not contact me, I never accept Friend invites. Additionally I have have a problem with the whole concept. Call me old school for that.
Friends are people I know personally. I need a new category, called "aquaintances", for people I met recently. The whole friend crap does not work for me, I do not like these 1 or 0 systems.
For reference, I don't play CS:GO, Warframe, PUBG, etc., all those multiplayer games with item economies, with the exception of TF2 (which I've not touched in a while, for what it's worth, though my inventory is still sitting there). I haven't visited trading sites for years now, and back when I did it was basically just backpack.tf and a little bit of trade.tf. I also used to use SteamGifts (the real one, not the fake one) back in the day.
They might be trawling groups for these, and I am a member of a good number of groups (and I should probably cut down on that).
Or, more likely, they're just trawling the forums. Most of my recent online presence on Steam, beyond just signing in and playing games, has been posting on the Steam forums.
Yeah, I figured attention may be coming from the forums, but theres also the fact that I post a lot of stuff on the workshop. A couple of the 6+ invites I mentioned previously for example turned out to be other people modding on the workshop who wanted to be friends due to being 'like minds', or because we needed to help eachother with further modding.
Because checking someones profile is really the only way to truly determine who a person is, I have since placed it in my profile description that if someone wants to be friends, they must have their profile OPEN and not set to Private. If someones profile is blocked, I delete them without hesitation as a blocked profile usually means the person is Toxic, someone you had a fight with previously, a hacker, scammer or someone likely too young to probably even be using steam ect. Because of this, and considering that Steam refuses to add any other way to confirm who people are, I think its wrong to even give the option to hide their profile in the first place.
btw for anyone who doesn't know or understand this; If someone sets their profile to blocked, and if they rapidly change their name to replace the list of previously used names, they can somewhat trick people into thinking they're someone else... which is the main reason I delete blocked profiles because you simply can't tell who that person really is or what they want...
Don't get me wrong though about people with blocked profiles, I understand the desire for privacy, but when the current invite system is limited about sharing other details, then its a joke to add them only to find that they don't speak your language and send you nothing but spam while you're in the middle of a game. I strongly believe that if you recieve an invite from someone with a blocked profile, then their profile should automatically unlock and allow you access to investigate who they are; permission being given through the sending of the invite.
It may be a little more off topic, but if a 13yo kid sends me an invite with a blocked profile to help protect his identity, how does that go to help anything when he's chatting on the mic with people in their 30s playing M rated games?.. what a joke. Yeah sure, the creeper may not be able to lurk on the kids profile, but why would he even need too when he can sit and have a conversation with the kid in game, steam chat, or steam voice chat ect?... The whole thing is ass backwards.