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Friends List bug

Chris Eck · 2014-02-27T23:41:04

I'm not sure where the appropriate place to post this is (if anywhere). I logged on today and had a friend request from Mikéhl Johnson: http://www.gamedev.net/user/218538-mik%C3%A9hl-johnson/ Going to his friends list, I see that he's added either 280 or 28,000 friends... The friends were only displaying one item per page, but the index looked like it was expecting 100 per page. I can't tell why he added me as a friend. It looks like this guy is just adding random people. I see some 100 rep, faceless contacts among his list. - Eck

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Started by Eck February 25, 2014 02:05 PM

13 comments, last by LennyLen 10 years, 1 month ago

Bacterius

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February 27, 2014 06:48 AM

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LennyLen

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February 27, 2014 01:38 PM

I get the same behaviour running Opera 12.16

Eck

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February 27, 2014 04:48 PM

I'm running Chrome:

Version 33.0.1750.117 m

It didn't happen on my link to the middle of his list like on st=6100. But the start of his list shows only 1 contact for me (pages 1-8):

http://www.gamedev.net/user/218538-mik%C3%A9hl-johnson/?tab=friends

http://www.gamedev.net/user/218538-mik%C3%A9hl-johnson/?tab=friends&st=800

I also noticed the names for the first 8 contacts were blank? So it might not be a paging issue. It might be a funky account in your friends page issue.

Page 9 clears up and shows 100 contacts a page

http://www.gamedev.net/user/218538-mik%C3%A9hl-johnson/?tab=friends&st=900

Then his friends list "runs out" after this point:

http://www.gamedev.net/user/218538-mik%C3%A9hl-johnson/?tab=friends&st=57900

And after that it says: "Mikéhl Johnson hasn't added any contacts yet." for the remaining 15 pages.

- Eck

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Paradigm Shifter

5,832

February 27, 2014 07:23 PM

I found out I had automatically accepted the friend request too (cancelled it now).

It's a bit suspicious that he sends friendship requests to thousands of people yet hasn't posted anything. It's just advertising for his website (which I really don't want to click on since the friend request thing was obviously some kind of hack, so I don't trust the website).

"Most people think, great God will come from the sky, take away everything, and make everybody feel high" - Bob Marley

LennyLen

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February 27, 2014 11:41 PM

After reading Eck's post, I went back and checked and I'm also getting what he describes.

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