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

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Post by wildrhythms »

retSava wrote: post #18
LewisVerstappen wrote: post #3

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…

Let me summarize it for you: it's "rise and grind" culture and "hustlers" who have convinced themselves that climbing the corporate ladder is the most important thing they will ever do. It's sad really

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

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Post by robin_reala »

KaiserPro wrote: post #83
heleninboodler wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Further downhill than secretly installing an IMAP proxy on your phone and hijacking all your email to go through it in a way that destroyed all TLS security to your real mail server? Impressive...

wait what?

I hadn’t heard of this either, but incredibly it turns out to be true: https://engineering.linkedin.com/mobile/linkedin-intro-doing...

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

#103

Post by braingenious »

hutzlibu wrote: post #100
braingenious wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry to hear that you didn’t like the first sentence of my post. Do you have any opinions about the following sentences about spamming the mods of a big website? (You can just respond “no”)

My opinion is, that apparently you like shady drug advertisement and you like to fight anyone who fights it. Have fun with that.

So no

I haven’t expressed any opinion about drug advertisements at all, in any way. It’s a bit of a bummer that my poking fun at a (from my perspective as an adult) misguided naive spammer is seen as the same thing as supporting crime.

Serious question: Is everybody that would consider this individual, for example, a “fucking idiot that got predictably banned” also a supporter of crime?

(You can just respond “yes”)

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

#104

Post by wildrhythms »

peterburkimsher wrote: post #51

I had LinkedIn until October 2021. A colleague was leaving, and I'd been asked to go around the team of 200 people, gathering farewell greetings. Another work project at the same time was the software language translations for our product. I manually trimmed the list of 200 colleagues down to 70 "international" names. Then I manually searched for each colleague on Google, and clicked the first link. Usually that was…

Banned for a rate limit what the hell ...

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

#105

Post by Quequau »

I moderate a few subreddits over on Reddit and spam purporting to be offers for black market drugs of abuse which use messaging services like Wickr & Telegram have been a problem for years.

Worse, it's shockingly difficult to convince the site admins of Reddit to decisively act on this sort of content, even though it's explicitly against their site-wide policies. I suppose this is probably the case for every site which hosts user submitted content and an upper management focused on easily produced metrics like "number of posts & comments per time unit".

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

#106

Post by stefanfisk »

KaiserPro wrote: post #83
heleninboodler wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Further downhill than secretly installing an IMAP proxy on your phone and hijacking all your email to go through it in a way that destroyed all TLS security to your real mail server? Impressive...

wait what?

https://jordan-wright.com/blog/2013/10/26/phishing-with-link...

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

#107

Post by newaccount74 »

the_biot wrote: post #99
vintermann wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yup. I got some dkim-signed scam mails ("you have won an X" and "missing package details" scams) from a Danish domain, I figured that Denmark was civilized enough that it was worth it to try their domain provider's abuse reporting. Nope, I got an explosion of spam after that, including some that looked like sign ups for genuine newsletters (as much as anything without double opt in can be considered legitimate). Look…

It's pretty common for e.g. hosting providers that don't take spam seriously to just forward complaints to their spamming customer. Exactly the opposite of what they should do, and you've seen the result, but some companies just don't care.

That's also what Apple does when you report an app on the app store for infringing on your rights. They just forward your complaint to the developer, and tell you to deal with it.

So much for curated stores.

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

#108

Post by hutzlibu »

braingenious wrote: post #103
hutzlibu wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My opinion is, that apparently you like shady drug advertisement and you like to fight anyone who fights it. Have fun with that.

So no I haven’t expressed any opinion about drug advertisements at all, in any way. It’s a bit of a bummer that my poking fun at a (from my perspective as an adult) misguided naive spammer is seen as the same thing as supporting crime. Serious question: Is everybody that would consider this individual, for example, a “fucking idiot that got predictably banned” also a supporter of crime? (You can just respond “yes”)

Are you aware that the style your are posting, is very close to trolling?

In either way, I think you have it all backward, maybe intentionally.

Op did spam fighting. And was banned for it. (Or is LinkedIn nowdays a market plattform for drugs?)

But what your point actually is, is not entirely clear to me. But it is not close to arguing in good faith, which would be the style of discussion I prefer around here.

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

#109

Post by braingenious »

hutzlibu wrote: post #108
braingenious wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So no I haven’t expressed any opinion about drug advertisements at all, in any way. It’s a bit of a bummer that my poking fun at a (from my perspective as an adult) misguided naive spammer is seen as the same thing as supporting crime. Serious question: Is everybody that would consider this individual, for example, a “fucking idiot that got predictably banned” also a supporter of crime? (You can just respond “yes”)

Are you aware that the style your are posting, is very close to trolling? In either way, I think you have it all backward, maybe intentionally. Op did spam fighting. And was banned for it. (Or is LinkedIn nowdays a market plattform for drugs?) But what your point actually is, is not entirely clear to me. But it is not close to arguing in good faith, which would be the style of discussion I prefer around here.

So yes

Sorry that “trolling” means “disagreeing with me” that must suck. Thankfully that’s not an issue I have.

Why is it so important that we elevate the experience of a person that objectively used linkedin wrong and was kicked out? What do you get out of maintaining your position and siding with the backseat modding? Are you looking for modding work?

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

#110

Post by hutzlibu »

braingenious wrote: post #109
hutzlibu wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you aware that the style your are posting, is very close to trolling? In either way, I think you have it all backward, maybe intentionally. Op did spam fighting. And was banned for it. (Or is LinkedIn nowdays a market plattform for drugs?) But what your point actually is, is not entirely clear to me. But it is not close to arguing in good faith, which would be the style of discussion I prefer around here.

So yes Sorry that “trolling” means “disagreeing with me” that must suck. Thankfully that’s not an issue I have. Why is it so important that we elevate the experience of a person that objectively used linkedin wrong and was kicked out? What do you get out of maintaining your position and siding with the backseat modding? Are you looking for modding work?

Since modding work would require me to deal with people like you all day long, hell no.

I was actually just trying to give you an advice, maybe for self reflexion, to help you understand, why your posts are not welcome here. You are free to decline that advice and I do not feel responsible for you and have actually other things to deal with.

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