How do you make new contacts at APSense?

I'm not talking about bringing new members. It's about sending Contact Requests to existing members.

We used to have a "new members" section on the Home Page. It was easy to send Contact Requests to new member who had just joined APSense. Since I'm a Premium member, it was not a problem, cause I can send 100 CRs a day.

Since we don't have it anymore, we can't see the new members, unless we take note of the name when accepting or refusing their personal pictures, which is a privilege given after a certain quantity of Honor Points, if I remember correctly.

In our news feed, we see only the members with whom we established contact.

In the past few days, I was clicking the "members online" link. If there were names or pictures I didn't recognize, I took a look and sent a CR.

Yesterday, I realized that, when a member looks at a profile, I can click on the username of the profile being looked at when it's a name I don't usually see in my news feed. It allows me to see profiles and send contact requests.

When I look at the profile of a member, I always look at the date the person joined APSense. If I see it goes back to 2007 or 2008, I then open the most recent article to see if the person was active recently. If there are no articles or RevPages written by that member, it might be a waste of time to send a CR.

One other trick is to check if there are "haves" and/or "wants" on the left part of the profile. If yes, it means the person was active a few months ago, i.e. when the "haves" and "wants" appeared at APSense.

What do you think ? Do you have other ways to find members not in your network at APSense ?

Now that I think about it, I guess I could take a look at the people commenting on the articles I write or read, or the RevPages, or the people who join campaigns.