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Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam

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Re: Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam

#11

It's not surprising. LinkedIn has been shady from the start. People shouldn't forget that they used to scrape your contacts from your email account through some sneaky user flow that got you to give them your email password.

This is the main reason I will never use LinkedIn.

Context: https://medium.com/@danrschlosser/linkedin-dark-patterns-3ae...

Re: Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam

#13

Of all the social networks, I never would've guessed that LinkedIn is the one people turn to when they want to sell drugs.

Rampant drug use really would explain some of the bizarre "hail corporate" content that gets produced there.

Re: Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam

#14

Of all the social networks, I never would've guessed that LinkedIn is the one people turn to when they want to sell drugs.

Drug dealers are very entrepreneurial, and are often excellent at identifying underserved markets. It appears LinkedIn users are such a market.

Re: Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam

#15

Of all the social networks, I never would've guessed that LinkedIn is the one people turn to when they want to sell drugs.

Whichever social network doesn't sufficiently moderate is the one people will turn to when they want to sell drugs.

If you have a sufficiently popular CRUD, and you don't go our of your way to stop them, bad actors will leverage it to do crimes. It's that simple.

Re: Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam

#16

Of all the social networks, I never would've guessed that LinkedIn is the one people turn to when they want to sell drugs.

Adderall, Modafinil, cocaine, there's probably a big market on LinkedIn if you're peddling the right drugs.

Re: Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam

#18

Of all the social networks, I never would've guessed that LinkedIn is the one people turn to when they want to sell drugs.

LinkedIn is closer to Facebook imo. The subreddit /r/linkedinlunatics is pretty funny, and also a bit scary.

It's pretty interesting actually, on facebook you see people show off a manufactured persona that is always laughing, on vacation in exotic or glammy places, and on LinkedIn it's the exact same phenomena but the success indicators are different.

I'm still a bit clueless on the whole LinkedIn influencer thing though. Is there some monetary gain from that? I don't think they have the same possibilities for eg ad space or sponsorship as eg youtube or blog influencers, so perhaps it's more a personal vanity thing, or selling books and courses.

Re: Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam

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post #18

Of all the social networks, I never would've guessed that LinkedIn is the one people turn to when they want to sell drugs.

LinkedIn is closer to Facebook imo. The subreddit /r/linkedinlunatics is pretty funny, and also a bit scary. It's pretty interesting actually, on facebook you see people show off a manufactured persona that is always laughing, on vacation in exotic or glammy places, and on LinkedIn it's the exact same phenomena but the success indicators are different. I'm still a bit clueless on the whole LinkedIn influencer thing t…

I guess it's "brand-building", be it just for the sake of ego or as a funnel to their other channels.

Re: Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam

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post #9

If that's true then: 1. Either LinkedIn is hacked by drug mafia 2. Or drug mafia has people inside LinkedIn But first thing - you should share you full report that you've sent to LinkedIn. You don't risk outing yourself - since mafia already knows your account.

Or four, as suggested by the top comment: Linkedin pro and correlating "who viewed all of my reported accounts recently?"
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