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Re: Tell HN: LinkedIn banned me because of my avatar, in the middle of my fundraise

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When you’re back in set up 2FA it stops a lot of the blocking when you do high risk things like start new ad campaigns or new startup pages. The initial red flag is usually a security red flag.

Thank you - I had 2FA on; still do in fact, it's asking me for it on login before hitting me with the captcha + ID verif.

Re: Tell HN: LinkedIn banned me because of my avatar, in the middle of my fundraise

#52
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That seems very strange that they would _ban the account_ rather than deleting the profile image and rendering a placeholder instead.

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It’s the norm online to not use real photos of yourself, that doesn’t make you a “clown”

In fact there are probably places where that could get you in trouble for sharing personal information or something

Re: Tell HN: LinkedIn banned me because of my avatar, in the middle of my fundraise

#53
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Is your avatar Marten for QC? :D

Yes, good eye :) I used it for years, and eventually just asked the author to get his official permission. I treasure it.

Nice :) That's pretty cool of Jeph to give you the go ahead.

Also I think this is the first time i've come across some fellow QC enjoyers in the wild lol.

Re: Tell HN: LinkedIn banned me because of my avatar, in the middle of my fundraise

#57
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I bet $10 that OP re-uploaded the avatar after having it removed the first time.

I didn't have it removed until after the account got restricted. I'll happily forward you the emails if you send the $10 to anything listed here: https://help.gov.ua/en/

No thanks. Good luck with that.

Re: Tell HN: LinkedIn banned me because of my avatar, in the middle of my fundraise

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post #57

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I didn't have it removed until after the account got restricted. I'll happily forward you the emails if you send the $10 to anything listed here: https://help.gov.ua/en/

No thanks. Good luck with that.

Sounds like it wasn't really a bet, then.

Re: Tell HN: LinkedIn banned me because of my avatar, in the middle of my fundraise

#60

I don't know why people even use the cesspool that's LinkedIn. I deleted my account in 2012 because of their spam emails and haven't looked back since.

Because it's invaluable during a job search. A person can easily apply to 50 jobs in one evening through LinkedIn. A decade or so ago, that could take a full week of work or more. Each individual company you applied to would require you to register on their job board and fill out a long application where you re-enter the information from the resume you just uploaded. It could take an hour or two just to apply to a single job. And that's only after you lucked into finding the job posting in the first place because postings weren't centralized and searchable like now with LinkedIn.

To your point though, I do pretty much forget that LinkedIn exists if I'm not actively in a job search.

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