Finally

[helen99]

A way to get rid of people you don't want to see on your Friends Of list.

1. Make sure you're logged in
2. Go to http://www.livejournal.com/admin/console/
3. Type ban_set username into the console

They magically disappear from your Friends Of list, never to be seen again, nor can they ever comment.

Comments

[helen99.livejournal.com]

There were a couple of abandoned journals I wanted to get rid of. Also, there's a new phenomenon in which people are randomly adding other people just for the sake of harassing them, and using deliberately obscene or otherwise objectionable names. For example, someone might sign onto the journal of an obvious Christian with the journal name of "i_love_demons" or something like that. Just to harass them. <lj user=rialian had accumulated a couple of those. Then there's my real reason. I'm addicted to friends list symmetry (I friend whoever friends me, and if someone I friend doesn't friend me back, I take them off after a month or a year, depending on how important they are to me. If someone's on my friends Of list that for whatever reason I simply can't stand (e.g., their journal makes me sick or they seem whacko or whatever), I don't personally want to see them on my friends of list. I can use this method to get them off of it once and for all and forget about them. Even though I remain on their friends list, I never need to know about that since I never check their journals, and they can't tell they're off my list since my friends of is hidden from view (unless they try to post, which they never do). Silly I fully admit, but there you have it.

[jarandhel.livejournal.com]

I think I'm going to have to chalk this up as one of those things I not going to get, simply because I'm not wired right to be bothered by it. *shrugs* I guess I'm glad that other people have the feature now, if it's something they find useful in stopping something that was bothering them.

[doltaghey.livejournal.com]

Definitely sympathise with the desire for friends-list symmetry. :) Balance in all things. (I also store all my paints and other art materials in a strict colour-related sequence of my own devising). Things like that bug me, sometimes.

-A.