It has occurred to me that I've already accepted friend requests from people who I barely know personally so I guess to save face on that, I'll just say that I don't plan on using any of the friend-locking / privacy settings.
I AM (fake)POLITE ON THE INTERNET.
I'm not too keen on the friend system anyway? There's always this awkward feeling of "should I send a request, shouldn't I?" and I'm not gonna be postin' secret stuff :x
Yeahhhh and the Weasyl thing, as it stands now, is kind of a SECRET CLUBHOUSE because apparently people can't donate 5 dollarsssssssssssssssssss lol
Is that... because they literally can't(they stopped accepting them) or .. Because they don't want to(pay money, or wait two weeks)?
I admit that I don't follow Weasyl's development news very closely, but if they stopped accepting donations as an entry into Weasyl and ...
I dunno! If it's a population control thing, then what's 2 weeks gonna solve. ;; They're going to need a lot of money to handle the capacity problems they're going to run into.
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Well from what I can gather, they're still accepting donations as early entry.
It's just people being cheap I guess.
I have been saving myself the guilt by not accepting random requests unless I have had a personal encounter with people. As far as the friends only settings, that remains to be seen.
I kind of figured it could be useful for psting things you want to show people, but don't want to post on a mass scale.I'll proboby make use of it eventually,personal art,closed concepts,commissions I put work into but don't want to draw attention from due to content etc etc.
It's a frivalous feature in some aspects, but it's there and can be made useful possibly. plus I suppose it makes up for/cuts down on those freind blocks people make on other art sites, myself included
I guess since the number of real-life friends that will actually friend me somewhere online is low, I'll invite and accept invites to folks I've spent a long time getting to know online, people I think fondly about, or just people I can remember well. I'm going to try to keep my Friends list that way for as long as I can, since Weasyl is progressive enough to separate 'Follow' from 'Friend'.
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PRETTY SURE THAT'S HOW MOST PEOPLE ARE or at least I hope so. No offence to some people but I genuinely feel bad at turning down friend requests, so I just go with them. :x