How do message requests work?

I remember getting a message as a request if it was from somebody I wasnt friends with or following.

Now i’m not getting message requests. I just get messages whether its from friends OR strangers Weird

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revenant · F

I just looked in there because usually I never even glance at them at all. I do not know how they work . Majority of messages are trash and the OK few....must think I am so impolite 😳

SW-User

Hell if I know
Seems intermittently random

Sometimes I’ll get a message in the request box from a circle friend
Sometimes I’ll get a message straight to the inbox from a random user

helenS · 36-40, F

I get many first messages as "requests" – but not all. Some pm's just go into my normal inbox.
Perhaps those people are on some sort of SW watchlist?

Carissimi · 61-69, F

I have no idea. I have a general messages place, then messages that go to another file that I didn’t set up, and occasionally message requests. I’ve never understood it.

XDHyperGirlXD1 · 31-35, F

Depends on your settings and if you deleted someone chat before next time they message it go to request

Convivial · 26-30, F

Seems to be random.. Some straight through, others in the request area

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