Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-35315474-20180505174709/@comment-35315474-20180505225524

I have a spreadsheet of my FL, but only use it sporadically since tracking every player's every move is too tedious. What I have noticed is that the names of some players are just not seen anywhere. At that point, I highlight their name in my spreadsheet and start watching for them in visits, gifts, and TY gifts. If I am consistently getting their TY gifts, but don't see any visits or gifts, then I mark them for possible removal. Even at that point, I try to give them a chance just in case they're busy, but I have yet to find anyone that far on my removal list that has suddenly began to be active again. I then only keep them around so I can get my 100 visits in each day. Once i can fill their slot to make up for the 100 visits, I let them go. By that time, I am very certain I have given them ample opportunity to reciprocate my friendship.

I just removed a number of players, so even though my stats show me to have 122 friends, only 51 of them are on my "star" list. Another 12 are on the "watch" list and the remaining 59 are sleepers from FB. I even had to unfriend some people to get them off my FL. I got tired of seeing them send back TY gifts every day with only a measly fixer once a week (if I'm lucky). Sometimes they may throw me a CI (not on my WL), but I usually have a zillion of those items already, making it clear they're sending me only their unusable items to make it look good. Or maybe they are trying and we just don't match up.

I guess it's time to do a "want more friends" post in hopes of finding more friends from here who are actively playing and not just using me to send them TT gifts.