You’d think after 6 or 7 years I’d know, but I don’t.
Is there some secret sharing of posts or something? For the life of me I can’t work out why this would be advantageous.
Quick look-up to PM or something?
As far as I know, all you get is a list to see if they’re online or not (at any current time).
Sort of like Instant Messenger, only without the instant messaging…so all you’re left with is a list of who is currently online.
They get to sleep on your couch anytime they want and you have to say yes. Choose your friends wisely.
But they have to bring the beer, right?
Every time you accept a friend request, we kill an orphan.
Do you kill them often?
Well, you can still contact them through a PM. That’s why I use them–to let people know I have them on my short list of people I message. (Oddly enough, you can still put people on that list without informing them of such.)
No. Any given orphan can only be killed once.
As Idle Thoughts said, it just gives you a list where you can quickly see who’s on line. It’s best use is to quickly see which moderators are not here for whatever nefarious purposes you might wish to engage.
This made me laugh hard enough to spill my tea. That will be one keyboard and cleaning services for one robe please.
The downside to that is you have to be “friends” with a mod.
I’m not sure it’s worth it. 
I dunno, we have pretty good medicine these days. Some orphans can indeed be resucitated and then killed a second time.
There was that one kid. Damn, but they must’ve killed him nearly a dozen times. Even Skald the Rhymer was pleading for them to stop.
You’ve heard of “friends with benefits,” right?
Well, it’s nothing like that.
Is this the origin of zombie threads?
You had me going till that last bit.
:rolleyes:
Aw, twicks. You know I love you.
I checked this post for invisitext.
I have actually never run afoul of any of the mods on this board, and have even co-authored (to a very small degree) a Staff Report with one. I attribute this state to the fact that I am a charming, witty, entertaining cretin who keeps his rampant jerkism mostly in check when online. That and the monthly tithe in brownies I pay.
Yeah, ok. That was over the top.
Skald would hunt down the same kid in every alternate dimension just to get all of them.
That’s more like it 