# Review a connection invitation without confusing replies and acceptance

Original constructed teaching cases. No real accounts, participants or customers.

I1 — Constructed reply: a member answers an invitation’s question but the request remains pending. Decision: record reply and connection state separately. Result: an answered message, not an accepted connection, consent to marketing or a customer. No real reply was sent.

I2 — Constructed missing alert: a request is visible in Other although no notification arrived. Decision: inspect the actual invitation and intended identity before responding. Result: an available request; no proof that all other invitations were delivered or that the platform lost a message.

I3 — Constructed stale sent request: the intended member has not accepted. Decision: review the irreversible/resend warning, deliberately withdraw if wanted and inspect Sent afterward. Result: request state recorded; no automatic reconnection, restored request or invitation allowance is promised.