declining friendships

There's always an ignore option.  Does it really need to have a button?

I use a "." in the box for the reason... I think it says enough....

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They only give you the option of accept or decline.  This is a place for everyone to be friends according to chess.com.  You do have one option.  You may accept them as a friend, then go to you're friends list and click on that, then just delete.  That way you will never have to explain why you declined them in the first place.  Thats the only way I know of to do it...Hope this helps somewhat...

I think the "." is reason enough for Chess.com admins to know the members don't want to have to explain why they declined a friend request.

Will you be my friend ? 

I have only received two random friendship requests, and simply typed "I dont accept random requests". Since it was only few instances, that was not too difficult. 

Now if you get random requests every single day. I want to know why? 

I actually think the "explain" feature is kind of nice... Is there anything wrong with saying "Sorry! I only accept friend requests from people I play with regularly" ? If I requested someone I'd much rather see that than just watch my request disappear and wonder if it was just a bug on the site or something :(

Noone ever accepts my friends request.... maybe its the guns ? 

You don't even have to type in ".". I you just click "send" on the box asking for an explanation, you will finish declining the request, and the other person will only get a message saying that you declined them.

I have to concur with alittlechess, an "Ignore" link for friend requests isn't asking too much from Admin.

I understand the concept that we all enjoy playing chess & as such there shouldn't be an overwhelming problem with giving someone a simple reason.  BUT, there are still some people who play chess who I wouldn't want to associate with & where I don't feel obligated to give them a reason.

Alas, there it is, open for dispute, and as such is finished.

The End.