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<p>Well there are two approaches to "making friends" in use - the facebook model that requires agreement and the twitter model which doesn't. Though I think even facebook has one way follows as well now.</p>
<p>We chose to go with the second model.</p>
<p>Friending on OSM doesn't really do anything anyway - it's entirely harmless to the other party (you in this case) because other than sending you a notification it doesn't change anything for you.</p>
<p>All it really does is "bookmark" somebody so that they are included in a list of people that you can narrow down the trace and changeset views to just those people.</p>
<p>Probably the real answer is that we just shouldn't send notifications, and should maybe rename the feature as "follow" rather than "friend" to better reflect what it really does.</p>

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