# Nope, not gonna accept a friend request from someone who joined today had has no posts.

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**Created:** [October 1, 2016, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nope-not-gonna-accept-a-friend-request-from-someone-who-joined-today-had-has-no-posts/767382 "2016-10-01T17:43:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2016, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nope-not-gonna-accept-a-friend-request-from-someone-who-joined-today-had-has-no-posts/767382/21 "2016-10-03T10:50:20Z")

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It would be nice to have an enemy status option …

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**Author:** ![oft\_wears\_hats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7993a0/32.png) [@oft\_wears\_hats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oft_wears_hats)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2016, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nope-not-gonna-accept-a-friend-request-from-someone-who-joined-today-had-has-no-posts/767382/22 "2016-10-03T12:26:45Z")

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I also recently got a friend request from someone who had joined that day and had no posts. I guess it’s been going around, like a flu.

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**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2016, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nope-not-gonna-accept-a-friend-request-from-someone-who-joined-today-had-has-no-posts/767382/23 "2016-10-03T15:05:56Z")

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> [@kopek](#):
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> Hey! **Idle** is one of my few friends! Don’t be talking no smack or getting mad or I may take offense! 😃
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> Almost all mine except one or two came from some odd thread when the feature was mentioned. Something I did notice just now is that one seems to be gone; a dearly departed one at that. Which makes me wonder if “former posters” somehow disappear from the list.

Idle is my only Friend. Every time I open my profile I see “Showing 1 of 1 Friend(s)” and am reminded that I only have one friend. _sigh_

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**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2016, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nope-not-gonna-accept-a-friend-request-from-someone-who-joined-today-had-has-no-posts/767382/24 "2016-10-03T15:09:03Z")

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> [@oft\_wears\_hats](#):
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> I also recently got a friend request from someone who had joined that day and had no posts. I guess it’s been going around, like a flu.

It’s almost certainly a bot or some new spam technique that wouldn’t work here because the “friend” function is only partially implemented.

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**Author:** ![Cartoonacy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/848f3c/32.png) [@Cartoonacy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartoonacy)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2016, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nope-not-gonna-accept-a-friend-request-from-someone-who-joined-today-had-has-no-posts/767382/25 "2016-10-03T20:46:10Z")

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> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#):
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> She’s okay, she just overshares at times. But, um, _shutter_? 😕

Yup. Closes up all the windows real tight.

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