Colleague Request Etiquette Revisited

[Roy N.]

As of late, I have been receiving a slew of colleague requests with no accompanying message of introduction.  My personal practice is to ignore such requests and I apply it consistently just like tenant screening - so if you have sent me one and think I'm a jerk for not reciprocating, now you know why ;-)

There have been several threads covering the topic of Colleague Request etiquette in the past: Will Bernard, Jason Munck, (the never opinionated) Hattie Dizmond, and Pyrrha Rivers have each raised the subject and given it a far more thoughtful and thorough treatment than you could hope to hear from me at this time.

However, I do have a couple of suggestions for @Joshua Dorkin and his ever growing crew at BP central:

• {one might be seen as a little draconian}: Make it a requirement to include a message (Note of Introduction) when sending a colleague request; and/or
• have one of the BP support team crawl through the above threads (and the others to which I did not link) on Colleague Request and Private Message etiquette and add a FAQ/Sticky thread to the New Member Introductions forum.