was requested to report this bug from showdown staff as they couldn't see it listed as a known bug.
Made a new account to do a challenge run of randbats ladder - an opponent sent me a friend request I didn't notice until I refreshed the webpage. When I did, the request popped up. Upon trying to reject the request, the message "You must be autoconfirmed to use the friends feature." would appear.
I closed the popup, then refreshed the page - same thing again.
I tried logging off, then logging back on - this time it appeared to work - clicking deny closed the window. However after another refresh, the window reappeared.
was asked to run a few commands, all of them gave a similar error
Perhaps this is simply because the account is less than a day old? or some other intended feature giving unintended consequences?
EDIT: same popup appearing 2 days later. If I realise its no longer there I'll post another edit
EDIT2: was able to deny the request today, refresh had it pop up no longer - presumably account is old enough to have been "autoconfirmed"