I recently noticed that I have this subsection in the mailbox that is titled requests

What does this even mean?
I have a couple of messages in there which are months old

This page is a permanent link to the reply below and its nested replies. See all post replies »

I've found it's people I've muted and don't want to communicate with. The few times I've opened one of these it was someone screaming abuse and telling me they were going to block me 🙄