LJ Help

[helwen]

I know it's somewhere, but it's been a week....

How do I ban people from my friends list? I have a bunch of Russians friending me. Or at least their sites are in Russian. Mind, I actually do have a friend over in Russia, but none of these is her.

Thanks

Comments

[tashabear.livejournal.com]

Hover over the little man next to the username; there should be a dialog box that pops up with all sorts of useful links of that nature.

[shalmestere.livejournal.com]

I've tried the hovering thing, but I'm not getting a dialog box :-/ Further Research Indicated....

[helwen.livejournal.com]

I did it, over in Add or Remove Friends. Maybe it matters where you are when you do it? Or it may be a feature that depends on which add-ons you have for your browser...

[helwen.livejournal.com]

Thanks! And interestingly, some of them left in the meantime -- maybe those ones could read enough English to see this post and leave before possibly being reported? Well, I'm just glad they're gone!

[tashabear.livejournal.com]

Maybe... or other people reported them and the accounts were pulled out by the roots.

[helwen.livejournal.com]

Ah, I hadn't thought of that. Well, good riddance, in any case!

[danabren.livejournal.com]

What the previous poster said. You can also check the FAQ for "ban_set", if you are feeling all adminstrative-y, but the easiest way is to hover your cursor over the little man, and REPORT and ben them.

[helwen.livejournal.com]

Thanks :)

[nazrynn.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you've picked up a bunch of people playing the "pokemon" game. Ban away....

[fitzw.livejournal.com]

Ah. "Gotta catch 'em all!"

[helwen.livejournal.com]

Meh.

[nazrynn.livejournal.com]

Exactly. Apparently that sort of thing is rather common in recent years, and has happened to more than 1 friend with regard to Russian LJ users.

And I've had something similar happen on Facebook - the user was benign, however, FB is not the brand-new tool that AIM was, years ago (I met Sarra the Lymner that way). I really wish there was some sort of sign I could post in my Facebook account that I am only friending people I have met in-person, or know through the different portions of Etsy that I am social with.

In the case of the Facebook Pokemon-ing, this user had received a friend "suggestion" that included me, as a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of a.... you get the idea....

(Renee Signorotti of SCA Corpora fame has also appeared as a suggestion to me. However, I just got a laugh out of FB's widespread suggestion function, and ignored it, since I only emailed her once about a membership issue many moons ago.)