If someone adds you to their Friend list, you aren't notified or asked for approval. Anything they say in the Friend channel will go to everyone on their Friend list.
What you received wasn't a Tell. It was text send in the Friend channel.
Friend is server specific and character specific. It is not the same as Global Friend.
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Too bad there's not an equivalent channel for global friends.
Sorry for the delay in replying. Got busy in RL. 
Thank you for the explanation. That makes sense. Still don't get why they friended me though, hehe. Ah well, no biggie.
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Maybe they were going to ask you something once, and then got sidetracked? Friending (and the chat "channel" Friends) is available to T1 Free accounts, as I recall.
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Sorry for the delay in replying. Got busy in RL.
Thank you for the explanation. That makes sense. Still don't get why they friended me though, hehe. Ah well, no biggie. |
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Most likely you were seeing half the conversation. This person who friended you (for any reason - could have been they saw and liked your costume) sends out a message in Friends, gets a response via friends or any other channel, and responds again by friends.
Such a person may have been invited to a team, clicked on their chat bar to type "hi", accidentally swapped channels and believed themselves to be participating int team chat the whole time.
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Huh.
I had a bit of oddness happen last night and figure I'd see if I could get any information on it.
I got a couple of consecutive tells from someone I didn't know while AH'ing, but I wasn't watching the chat window at all, so I didn't even notice when I got it. It consisted of:
[Friend] PlayerX - hi
[Friend] PlayerX - cool
First off, I had no idea who this person was, so why was the tell coming across as [Friend]? They aren't on my friend's list, neither Server, nor Global, and I've never spoken to this person or teamed with them before either. I didn't reply as I had no idea how long those messages had been sitting there, though in hindsight, I should have asked.
It's pretty obvious they were talking to someone else at the time. Is it possible to friend someone without getting a confirmation window to accept or deny?
Meaning this person may have friended me at some point in the past, but I didn't know they had and they sent a tell to me by mistake? Or was it truly a crossing of wires and I ended up with tells that belonged to whoever PlayerX was talking to?