Talk:Friends/@comment-64.103.25.102-20120426134744

I want to share a technique, which I use for keeping track of the friends to whome I give and who gives back.

I keep a Notes page on my iPhone with a list of the friends. Each time I give a gem, I add a "+" sign before the name. Each time I recieve a gem from a person, I clear all accumulated + signs and add a *.

I tend to keep on the generous side and will allow giving up to 5 gems to established friends without getting a gem in return - people can fall ill, be away on a holiday, loose their device, etc... Besides, giving a gem after a while can give your established friend a kind of "nudge". However, the more + signs a person accumulates, the longer will be the distance between each giving. Once 5 + signs have accumulated, and I don't get a gem back within a week, I defriend that person.

When giving gems, I first give to everyone, who has a * beside their name and change that * to +, then I distribute the reemaining gems between the others with the least number of + signs.

This method allows for some overbooking of up to 9-10 friends - not everyone manages to give back every day, and historically I was able to avoid multiple *'s beside usernames.

And thanks to this method, I was now able to spot 3 friends, who stopped giving back, even though they were regular givers before. Maybe they just stopped playing... One of them is already defriended and the other two will be defriended in a day.

I am now adding new frends from this site, trying to locate regular givers. For new additions, my strategy is to give a single gem and them wait for a returned favour. A person gets defriended if I don't get a return gem with 48 hours, otherwise they enter the usual +/* processing queues.

The regulars or admins here are welcome to pull this post into a separate article, if you find it merits such a measure...

To be a little original, I will not give my GC name here. Don't call me, I'll call you :D