As a former longtime LI pro user and LI user at launch... I'm not surprised. LI loves spam and they have no intention of really doing anything about it. I refused to keep paying for such a low quality service. This has not negatively affected my consulting networking or revenues at all. Good riddance. It can go in the trash with FB.
Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam
141–150 of 259 posts
Re: Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam
#142Earlier quoted context omitted.
My ESTA ran out shortly after covid started, and I didn't renew it until Febuary this year. Shortly after putting in for it, my linkedin reported I had a visit from a "Law Enforcement professional from the Washington-Baltimore area", which I thought was amusing.
I want to know what they're looking for that could get them to reject the ESTA...? If writing "illegal drug salesman" as your profession gets your ESTA application blocked, then there is nothing to stop some stranger setting up a fake linkedin profile with the same.
Are ESTAs the one where applicants have to list their own social media accounts, or am I thinking of something else? Last time I went to the US was 2018, so even if I remember right, things may have changed.
Re: Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam
#143Earlier quoted context omitted.
I want to know what they're looking for that could get them to reject the ESTA...? If writing "illegal drug salesman" as your profession gets your ESTA application blocked, then there is nothing to stop some stranger setting up a fake linkedin profile with the same.
Are ESTAs the one where applicants have to list their own social media accounts, or am I thinking of something else? Last time I went to the US was 2018, so even if I remember right, things may have changed.
I went in 2021, and I had to fill in social media accounts, they didn't say to which sites so I listed a whole bunch of them.
Re: Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam
#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
Remember that huge hack that started when that person accepted a LinkedIn request. I forgot which hack it was.
wait what?
I could be wrong, but I think the story was contained here [0], where a chilean programmer was targeted through a LinkedIn face account set by north korean hackers.
[0] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/04/26/the-incredible...
Re: Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam
#145[flagged]
I don't understand why this was downvoted, I have noted the same. Many pro-Putin posts go around, pro-Ukrain posts get loads of hate comments and there are also lots of fake news posts trying to spread doubt about US/Nato intentions.
I don't see nearly as many of these on FB, for instance.
It seems LinkedIn is FB without content moderation.
Re: Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam
#146I never thought I would say this but LinkedIn seems to have gone even further downhill than it was a few years ago. You know things are bad when even the low end recruiters seem to have left the platform. These days 90% of the contacts/connect requests I receive are from dodgy pension "advisors" trying to get their hands on my pension pot cash.
Not directly related, whenever I get a new connection request, it is hard to tell if a person is real. Particularly if I don't know them first hand. The job history can be fake and profile photo generated by some GAN. It sucks but yeah, then later on they pitch something to you.
Why would you consider a connection from somebody you have not worked with?
Re: Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam
#147I 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 whi…
No post body was provided.
Re: Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam
#148Of 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.
You dont have to be on drugs to do linkedin - but it sure helps.
Re: Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam
#149Of 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'm still a bit clueless on the whole LinkedIn influencer thing though.
Every day some one on my twitter timeline will retweet a "10x your biz on linkedin" - reading them makes me reconsider if intelligent life exists on this planet.
Re: Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam
#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
I did that maybe 10 years ago and haven't had a single opportunity to regret.
I did that 10 years ago when they got hacked[1], later recruiters from two FAANG companies even found me without it (The first found me on Github, and another through a referral) and I worked for a couple of years at both companies. Like you, I'd thought I had a good run without it. More recently, I noticed that some of the people who were way junior to me earlier in my career, are way ahead of me because they were s…
The one nice thing about LinkedIn is the Easy Apply feature. You can quickly shotgun apply to a bunch of companies and then get on with your day without filling in all the same stuff, and it even tells you if the company looked at your application. I still manually fill in a lot of regular applications, but LinkedIn definitely saves a lot of time.