"Add to Friends" does something or not?

8 Post author: mwengler 28 January 2011 12:45AM

If I click on a users name it brings me to a page like lukeprog's.  In the upper right of that page I see lukeprog's karma score, and I also see a button "add to friends."

Early in my use of this site there were some authors I wanted to follow, I thought perhaps "add to friends" would help me do that. 

But since then as near as I can tell, "add to friends" has absolutely no functionality.  Does anyone out there know any differently?

Comments (11)

Comment author: NihilCredo 28 January 2011 01:20:32AM *  12 points [-]

You can use lesswrong.com/r/friends/ to only see your friends' submissions.

Also, they are listed in the Friends tab of your Preferences, so you can more quickly message them or check their userpage.

Comment author: lukeprog 28 January 2011 03:19:06AM *  2 points [-]

If I 'friend' you, is there any way for you to tell that I've done so?

Can others see whom I have friended?

Comment author: NihilCredo 28 January 2011 06:49:53AM 2 points [-]

No.

No.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 28 January 2011 04:00:02AM 0 points [-]

I just friended you. Did you receive any indication of it?

Comment author: lukeprog 28 January 2011 05:13:40AM 3 points [-]

No I did not.

A useful feature, but a confusing use of the term 'friend.'

Comment author: wedrifid 28 January 2011 08:35:04AM 5 points [-]

A useful feature, but a confusing use of the term 'friend.'

Indeed. You could subscribe to people as 'friends' purely because you consider them a bad influence and wish to be sure you see their comments, the better to refute and downvote them.

Comment author: Dr_Manhattan 28 January 2011 02:32:56PM 4 points [-]

Keep your friends close...

Comment author: sixes_and_sevens 28 January 2011 09:20:39AM 3 points [-]

In what way are you not describing friendship? ;-)

Comment author: NihilCredo 28 January 2011 05:52:20PM 2 points [-]

Hi mum.

Comment author: timtyler 28 January 2011 10:36:56PM 1 point [-]

http://lesswrong.com/prefs/friends/ does seem to have its moments.

Comment author: humpolec 28 January 2011 04:42:48PM 3 points [-]

It adds a "friend" CSS class to your friend's username everywhere, so you can add an user style or some other hack to highlight it. There is probably a reason LessWrong doesn't do it by default, though.