Lessons learned from growing LinkedIn to 175 million users • Hacker News Board

Re: Lessons learned from growing LinkedIn to 175 million users

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Post by onetwothreefour » Mon, Oct 29, 2012, 7:06 AM UTC

Firehed wrote: post #7

onetwothreefour wrote: post #5

Also: spam your user base with irrelevant stuff on a daily basis even when they've opted out of every email possible. Pretend it's an "accident".

I'm nearly to the point with LinkedIn where I want to take them to court. What they're doing is a clear violation of CAN-SPAM. I generally feel that kind of thing is a waste of the courts time, but I simultaneously feel that marking the messages as spam in gmail isn't doing enough to curb their annoying and illegal behavior.

Indeed.

And you know what annoys me more? There are probably 10s of LinkedIn engineers on HN who are probably reading this thread and know about this illegal spamming and should know better then to leave that unchecked.

Re: Lessons learned from growing LinkedIn to 175 million users

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Post by benologist » Mon, Oct 29, 2012, 8:57 AM UTC

rrhoover wrote: post #8

benologist wrote: post #3

There has to be a lesson somewhere about posting stuff on your company blog that targets your company's market instead of HN.

The HN audience has a high overlap with Quibb. Although less technical and development focused, I discover a lot of good startup and industry-centric content through the site.

HN is a public forum for sharing news with a large group of mostly strangers around the world. Quibb is for sharing news within a very small and private group of people that you work with and all the speech and thought restrictions that implies. That's not very high overlap.

Anyone can convince themselves this is their ideal audience and get some iota of validation by pooping out articles for us.

Re: Lessons learned from growing LinkedIn to 175 million users

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Post by justincormack » Mon, Oct 29, 2012, 9:24 AM UTC

onetwothreefour wrote: post #5

Also: spam your user base with irrelevant stuff on a daily basis even when they've opted out of every email possible. Pretend it's an "accident".

Also once enough people have opted out create new emails that default to opt in.

LinkedIn is a prime example of an ultra low value service that should be run as one minimal thing done well not try to be Facebook.