Whose this unknow person...

India
May 5, 2011 6:23am CST
Friends, today i got a friendship request from a new user of mylot. That person has not started or not responded to any mylot discussion. But she have 30 above friends. Whats their goal? Why they enter into mylot? Have you experienced like this...?
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22 responses
@thesids (22180)
• Bhubaneswar, India
5 May 11
They will send you referral requests at end and maybe a few would agrre and join. Purpose solved. Alternatively, on thinking positive, they have their friend circle from real life here and these have joined them. Over the period they would start participating.
• United States
5 May 11
How sad. Sad for them because I do not add anyone I can't relate to. And the only way I will know for sure is by answering their posts.
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@thesids (22180)
• Bhubaneswar, India
5 May 11
That is my behen - me too is 99.9% that way
@owlwings (43915)
• Cambridge, England
5 May 11
People who do this are almost certainly using MyLot for their own (commercial) purposes. There was a user who was doing this a while back. No discussions, no responses and several hundred "friends". I got requests from this person and denied them each time. In a day or so, I would get another request (which I denied). I wasn't the only 'target'. She was doing the same to many people. In the end, several of us reported 'her' for spamming and she was quickly removed. I would not be at all surprised if the person you got a 'friend' request from is the same person. Deny the request. If you get another request in a day or so, deny it again. If 'she' persists, please report the username to MyLot.
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• India
5 May 11
I am supporting your words. We are doing our duty sincerely in mylot. You sad that "denied them each time...", If they targeted on you and they may give negative rating to you. Then it is a threat know. How you are overcoming that problem?
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@GardenGerty (157555)
• United States
7 May 11
This happens to me a lot. Often they request a lot of friends and then never come back. Other times they request a lot of friends and then start sending them links to join other sites. Most of the time I do accept them but a lot of other users do not if they have not interacted.
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• India
7 May 11
Its better to rid of them...
@AKRao24 (27424)
• India
6 May 11
Hi Dear Ramesh! I now and then get such friend requests, where they have not initiated either a discussion not responded to any discussion! They have '0' as their score! For that matter just now before responding to your discusiion I have denied the request of one of such so called 'friend' by name Lili or some thing like that! These people are smart they use some attractive girl as their Avatar and then they request for the friendship! I think these people are on this site to promote their own sites or for spamming! Once we get them as friends then they start sending spams in the form of private messages, which is against the guidelines and rules of this forum! I normally don't entertain such people and I sincerely request my fellow Mylot members to discourage such people from such activities to keep our forum clean and loving one! Thanks for the discussion!
@sswallace21 (1824)
• United States
5 May 11
Yes, I've been getting these requests on a regular basis. I was actually wonder why they were requesting friends also. Yesterday, I also received a private message from someone who requested to be my friend a couple of months ago and her response count still says 0.
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• United States
5 May 11
Please tell me what you mean by this. I didn't know I had done something wrong.
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• China
5 May 11
maybe i can understand the girl's goal a little,sometimes when we newly come to a place and are not familiar with the regulations and the first sight of seeing others have many friends ,we also want to make friends and then we start questions our friends will come and respond,she is preparing for the later work.maybe she just looked though others mylot and see what kind of questions and responds people are talking about...so if you have no interest,deny her requestion but you don't mind just add her as your friends...have a nice day
• Canada
5 May 11
Welcome to myLot..dellahappy! I do understand what you are saying, but...in my time, here on "myLot"--a "friend request" from some-one with "O" posts and "O" responses...I have NO way to judge that persons character, I don't know how that person thinks! And even tho' it is just the cyber world, I still do pick and choose my friends carefully..and based on their posted thought processes. Past experiences, when accepting "ZERO POST & RESPOND" friend requests....have put both me, and my computer at risk from spamming and scamming! And, if you deny her requisition..you also deny her/him as a friend..can't do both! Truly hope you do enjoy your time here on myLot, it is a wonderful site with absolutely tremendous people!
• United States
5 May 11
That's uncanny. I just did. A newbie asked to be my friend. She hasn't started a post and yet has over 30 friends. I don't get it. the only way I can tell if we can be friends is if she answers my post Or better still I can answer hers. So I will wait and see if she starts anything. If not The answer sadly will be no. I like to wait and see with newcomers.
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@cieldz (709)
• Indonesia
5 May 11
hello rameshchow... :) i think i acepted the same friend request from the same person like you said.. she has 50 friends, still with 0 post and 0 respond.. i dont know her too.. good day... :)
• India
5 May 11
Just delete those unwanted fellows...from your friends list.
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@shibham (16977)
• India
7 May 11
Many times dude. Once you add them then be sure you are about to receive a referral link. they are here to increase their fellow members on their certain society. I just ignore them all. have a great day.
• India
7 May 11
I too ignored them...
• India
5 May 11
Dear Ramesh I too did the foolishness of accepting, wait you will get a referral link soon They are here for that only. Thanks for sharing Cheers. God bless you, have a nice day ahead. Professor ‘Bhuwan’. .
• India
5 May 11
I too had ready to accept her request blindly. All the time i never thought about who they are. But this time i just saw on her profile with zero discussions... hahahha.... LoL,... I denied her request immediately i shared with U.
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@iklananda (1202)
6 May 11
that the initial way perhaps to get more friend to discuss
@oninomar (505)
• Philippines
5 May 11
hmm... I always got a request with 55 friends and no post at all.. So I decided to delete her.. Her avatar is girl pic. hmm.. oh well thanks for informing about that..:)
• India
5 May 11
Yeah, she put a lady gaga image on her profile, isn't it?
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@oninomar (505)
• Philippines
5 May 11
her username is kim with some numbers?haha
• Philippines
6 May 11
they are not interested in the discussions here. Their goal is to have as many friends as they can have then send them a referral link because there are many money making online now that pays for referrals.
• United States
5 May 11
Maybe they just wanna say they have lots of friends? seems like they dont have to be "physical" friends now-a-days.
@Lakota12 (42600)
• United States
5 May 11
yes I have but they usually have 300 to 400 friends wih out posting or respmding I deny for I see no reason to gather freinds and not let people know what you are about and what ya think abuot things
@mlhuff12 (797)
• United States
5 May 11
I agree, not everybody is willing to jump into something head first. Some may be wary or perhaps just busy at the moment. You never know about a person's life and shouldn't immediately judge. Perhaps when she is ready she'll start creating discussions and posts. With more of a friends circle on mylot, there is more chances of getting more responds to discussions that you start.
@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
5 May 11
Add her and if she spams you, you'll know....
@jaiho2009 (39142)
• Philippines
5 May 11
I received a friend's request last week from this mylotter who joined for less a month. Upon checking the profile...this mylotter has more than 100 friends,50+interests,but not responded a single topic or not a single discussion either. I am also wondering what this mylotter is all about... have a good day
@Devilova (5392)
• Indonesia
5 May 11
Becarefull with that kind of person, You will get spammed by them. I only approve friend request for a people with minimum of hundreds post in here. I will keep it on the pending for couple days to see their activity.
• United States
5 May 11
Hi Remo, Gosh the friend request come in by the 10 a day. I have well over 700 listed friends and it is getting to the point that I feel I will have every single person on myLot in my list. lol, I at times can't say no so I add them but it is getting so out of control. Lately I have been waiting a while after they request because what is the point of requesting someone you have never interacted with. See I don't want to add someone who starts discussions that maybe I can't relate to and then they feel like I don't want to interact. As for the ones with zero friends, usually it is members who come here looking for referrals. I have not had any issues with spam but if someone starts to spam me I will kindly send a pm and tell the to stop. If they do not then I would have no choice but to delete them, because really Remo friends do not spam. I have learned about so many good friends here and no friend of mine would actually trick me into anything to gain a referral. What I would suggest is leave the person pending and see what their activity is like, if they start to participate on the Lot and you find the person and you have things in common then go ahead and add. Usually Remo when their sole intent is to spam they usually go away on their own. Hope this helps.