Oh sorry Evan, I didn't notice. I don't really pay attention to the friend request or other parts of the site, I stick mostly with the forums.

To be honest, I don't really like the friend feature. It reminds me of FB where you click yes and have hundreds or thousands of friends, but never have met them and never communicate. It seems really silly to me.

Of those I have here, there's no communication with a few, occasional with 3 or 4, and regular communication with only 2. I don't see that as being an accurate list of friends. But then I guess I'm not looking at it from the perspective of "Hey, lets get to know each other and be friends" kind of thing. I tend to see it as someone who's already your friend.

As far as the filters, it really helps cut back on messages. For me it's stop over half of my messages, they've dropped from around 40 a day to 20 a day. If someone accepts your friend request or messages you, that eliminates the restriction for you if you were restricted prior to that.

I'm working soon, I'll look for your request after work today and accept it. Thanks for asking.