Annoying repeated friend requests

[Patti (baconater)]

I've been getting repeated friend requests after ignoring them.

One person in particular.

Every day for at least two weeks.

Time to out him. Please let me know if you are getting the same or from anyone else in an annoying fashion. Please take a screen shot before deleting if possible. It makes the follow
up to complaints much easier for the Goodreads admin team.

Thanks groupites!

[Patti (baconater)]

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...

[Rosen]

Apparently he is my friend! So I must have got at least one request.

[Katy]

Apparently he's my friend too! I must admit, I do add everyone because i'm too lazy to look at who they are....

[Kath]

i ignored him twice

[Patti (baconater)]

Ah.

I only accept requests from members of our group. I've no idea how he found me. He's not a member of UKAKF.
He's a persistent bugger though.

No idea why he thinks friending me will benefit him. I don't have any time for spammers either.

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

I have got a third request from him today after ignoring the first two. He is going to be blocked now. only way to stop him.

[Elle]

I have a group of about 4 authors atm that are PERSISTENTLY friending me. He is included.

I have to admit I always add people but I never add authors. *coughs* LOL

[Patti (baconater)]

I always add groupites. I don't distinguish between authors and readers. We are a family of people who love books.

It's also easier to send messages to groupites who are friends. I HATE capcha!

[Elle]

I meant apart from authors in our group of course! I have quite a few of those added!!

[Patti (baconater)]

Oh Peanut. We all knew that. :)

How are you lovely girl? I'm accepting that no news is good news? Missing you, you know!

[Geoff (G. Robbins) (merda constat variat altitudo)]

Well, I've had my first traditional spam via Goodreads. A person who is allegedly young and female sent this:

Hello,
My name is XXXXX XXXXXX; I am so much interested in you after going through your profile here on Good-reads. I feel like having you as a friend? If you wish, please kindly write me through my email ( xxxxxxxxxx@yahoo.com ) As soon as I hear from you,I will tell you more about me and also send my pictures to you. I have something Very Important to tell you

Amusingly, she spells her name three different ways (That must be confusing for her).

I get enough of this crap via my regular email without getting it here too.

Oh, I also got the same invite, multiple times, that Patti received.

[Tim]

Name like a musical instrument? Yeah I just had that too.

[[deleted user]]

I see that I've friended him too - I tend to accept most requests, but untick the top friend box if they are not on this forum. I check to see if we have friends in common too - and I have 15 in common with this person! I haven't had any trouble from him - but I'm surprised that he sends out repeated requests to those who've already ignored him; unless he sends out so many he can't remember who he's already asked...?

[Tim]

Normally I'll only accept friend request from people I (a) know or (b) are active in a group that I'm also active in. I don't see any value in just collecting effectively a list of hundreds of names that I have no real idea who they are.

[Vanessa (aka Dumbo)]

Geoff (G. Robbins) (The noisy passionfruit) wrote: "Well, I've had my first traditional spam via Goodreads. A person who is allegedly young and female sent this:

Hello,
My name is XXXXX XXXXXX; I am so much interested in you after going through y..."

I got the same message this morning. I've ignored it.

[Geoff (G. Robbins) (merda constat variat altitudo)]

Yes, that's her Tim.

[Tim]

I reported it as spam.

[Geoff (G. Robbins) (merda constat variat altitudo)]

I've done the same, Tim.

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

me too.

[Katie]

Our musical friend must be of both persuasions because she sent me an email wanting a relationship, too! I was going to report it, but couldn't work out how.

And I see I'm already a friend of the first person mentioned. I did have a request from someone else the other day, but when I looked at his list of friends, they were ALL female. No thanks.

[D.M. Andrews (author)]

I got the Violin one today and have ignored.

One I would watch out for is this one:
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...


;)

[Kath]

Oh, I fell for that one Darren! I'm an eejit!
I accepted this person (at the top of the page). I usually do - I'm basically friendly. Like Karen, I untick the Top Friend thing though. Can you rescind the acceptance? Sort of 'unfriend' him? Be a salutary lesson to him if his friends all walked away maybe?

[Geoff (G. Robbins) (merda constat variat altitudo)]

If you want to report it, click the word flag to the right of the message. You will then get three option, which are self explanatory.

[Lorraine]

Yeah he's my friend too. I don't really care, I add everyone.

[Geoff (G. Robbins) (merda constat variat altitudo)]

To remove a friend, click on that friend and scroll to the bottom. There is an option there called remove a friend.

[Shuddhanara]

hi i had the violin

one today..refused..she wanted a r/ship with me...did she look at my book groups!..she is barking in the wrong forest!...:-)

[Geoff (G. Robbins) (merda constat variat altitudo)]

Yes Steve, as did the young lady who lived for four weeks under George Michael's floorboards.

If you're going to be a stalker, at least do your research.

[Patti (baconater)]

I've heard the Violin too.

Steve, I think she may simply be barking. ;)

[Tim]

D.M. Andrews (GoodReads Author) wrote: "I got the Violin one today and have ignored.

One I would watch out for is this one:
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...


;)"

Shan't :-P

[Kath]

I can only see a link to block him Geoff - and he won't know I've done that - where's the fun in that? ;)

[Geoff (G. Robbins) (merda constat variat altitudo)]

You can always PM him then block him, Ignite.

[Simon (Highwayman)]

Hmmmph. She doesn't want a relationship with me :(

[Patti (baconater)]

So she has some sense then.

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

you could email her and ask her for one. she has been free with her email address

[Simon (Highwayman)]

Photos too. Such a nice girl and all she wants is my bank details to confirm I am 18.

[Patti (baconater)]

Gee, I wonder what country she could be from.

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Senegal apparently. . .

[Damien]

Geoff (G. Robbins) (The noisy passionfruit) wrote: "Well, I've had my first traditional spam via Goodreads. A person who is allegedly young and female sent this:

Hello,
My name is XXXXX XXXXXX; I am so much interested in you after going through y..."

I woke up to a message from her also. She has an interest in religious titles and really wants to tell me something important. :S

[Patti (baconater)]

She wants to send me photos.

[Patti (baconater)]

Oh and she likes sweeming.

I've never sweemed. I wonder if its fun.

[Kath]

To be pendantic Patti, I think you say 'I've never Swuum.'

[Elle]

Patti (Migrating Coconut) wrote: "Oh Peanut. We all knew that. :)

How are you lovely girl? I'm accepting that no news is good news? Missing you, you know!"

Busy, busy, busy! No news is good news. It means I'm hard at work. I miss this place but if I were to keep it up with as much as I did before I'd never sleep.

[Patti (baconater)]

Sleep is over rated.

Swuumed?

[Tim]

Ignite wrote: "To be pendantic Patti, I think you say 'I've never Swuum.'"

Nah, it's an irregular verb: sweemt

:)

[Patti (baconater)]

I think you've got it Tim!!!

Now give it back.

[Tim]

Oh all right then. Catch...

[Patti (baconater)]

Oops. I dreept it.

[Tim]

If you breakt it, you buyd it...

;)

[Linda]

I see I'm friends with him too. I don't mind, I say yes to anyone... as it were.

I doi have someone continually inviting me to join various groups, which I now ignore. I turned off my email notifications it was getting so tiresome. (Hubby gets narked by too many notifications.)