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Re: Shameless Work Influencers Are the Bane of LinkedIn

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Post by jpindar » Sat, May 29, 2021, 10:52 PM UTC

kthejoker2 wrote: post #85

All social media platforms without a "dislike" button are trash, precisely because I am the product. Today I use my RSS feed to find interesting, novel content. The ideal LinkedIn would have some kind of metamoderated, highly curated (and filtered!) "most interesting professional content for you" and the weight of "a friend of a friend shared this really popular thing" would be super small because that's a crappy sig…

What is the difference between the existing "I don't want to see this" button and a "dislike" button?

Re: Shameless Work Influencers Are the Bane of LinkedIn

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Post by jpindar » Sat, May 29, 2021, 11:05 PM UTC

takkiinvincible wrote: post #176

A lot of the comments seem to suggest that good quality content is missing from LinkedIn and other mainstream social media platforms. I wonder what people consider to be good quality content?

I think a lot of people on HN just hate all social media so much that by definition there couldn't be any good content.

Re: Shameless Work Influencers Are the Bane of LinkedIn

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Post by tolbish » Sat, May 29, 2021, 11:27 PM UTC

SummerlyMars wrote: post #112

Frost1x wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can use the same sort of polite etiquette in well crafted form to undermine these polite attacks. It takes quick thinking and usually works best in the form of an open ended question that sets the BS in its place. No one says anything explicitly but everyone internally acknowledges it. It may be a bit passive aggressive but such is most modern business culture and meetings.

Can you elaborate a bit on what this would look like?

A polite question asking the person to go into further detail, for instance.

Re: Shameless Work Influencers Are the Bane of LinkedIn

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Post by barbs » Sun, May 30, 2021, 12:00 AM UTC

mattharney wrote: post #120

ycombinete wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A friend and I have a mini-hobby of sharing these with each other under the title of “Today in Thanking Myself”. The highest level are the ones where people pimp out their own families for LinkedIn karma

This Twitter account does a great job curating these: https://twitter.com/BestofLinkedin

This is so nauseatingly entertaining, and a distillation of similar bullshit I've encountered freelancing for various agencies and startups.

It feels like this field is ripe for trolling - people making fake accounts and making similar inspirational posts that are a bit too outlandish but could almost be real.

Or maybe these troll accounts exist, but the posts are indistinguishable from the real thing...

Re: Shameless Work Influencers Are the Bane of LinkedIn

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Post by rnotaro » Sun, May 30, 2021, 12:32 AM UTC

Havoc wrote: post #62

throw_some wrote: post #21

My uBlock Origin filters for linkedin which completely cut feeds and all sort of distracting things out (some filters might be outdated, but things work): www.linkedin.com##.feed-follows-module www.linkedin.com##.ember-view.feed-shared-navigation-module.overflow-hidden.Elevation-2dp.left-rail-container www.linkedin.com##.ember-view.pv3.feed-shared-news-module www.linkedin.com###launchpad-wormhole www.linkedin.com##.r…

>>www.linkedin.com##div[class^="feed-shared-update"] Drop this one. Breaks linkedin for me

That's the main feature.

Parent mentionned:

> All this leaves out is the leftmost side (where your number of connections are seen), and the top blue row. The feed is entirely gone.

Re: Shameless Work Influencers Are the Bane of LinkedIn

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Post by magneticnorth » Sun, May 30, 2021, 12:36 AM UTC

gumby wrote: post #181

I love this piece, but really: > getting hired via LinkedIn has, inevitably, become more about getting attention than being qualified for a given job. Does anyone actually get hired via LinkedIn? I have always assumed that the majority, and most extreme, of the performative LinkedIn “actors” are really simply wasting their time. I find LinkedIn really useful for two things: looking someone up before meeting with them…

I once got hired via LinkedIn but have never posted a single thing there. I basically use it as an up to date and more extensive resume, and I assume I get attention from recruiters because of tech keywords in my work history and positively regarded companies and schools.

If you're trying to get hired in marketing or communications, then the performance probably matters, but recruiters will reach out without your having to loudly pat yourself on the back in a thousand strangers' feeds.

Re: Shameless Work Influencers Are the Bane of LinkedIn

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Post by GekkePrutser » Sun, May 30, 2021, 1:52 AM UTC

I don't really see any of this emotional divorce stuff mentioned in the article in my timeline on LinkedIn. Just the usual people reposting all the corporate PR bullshit about how the company loves the planet and blowing their own trumpets about how amazingly committed they are to making a difference on orphan secretary poodle day. It's a sickening mess of people stumbling over each other to be the most politically correct obedient corporate drone. People are even more fake than on Facebook.

Of course the people who are actually good at their jobs are never seen there. They don't need to profile themselves because they're well-known to be good. And they don't have thousands of contacts because they only accept requests from people they actually work with. It's almost like an inverse proof of capability.

The only reason I'm still on there is because it's handy when you need another job. The social part is a complete failure IMO.

Re: Shameless Work Influencers Are the Bane of LinkedIn

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Post by GekkePrutser » Sun, May 30, 2021, 2:24 AM UTC

sosodev wrote: post #151

hliyan wrote: post #96

Counterpoint: as it is with Facebook, the quality of your feed depends entirely on your connections and who among those connections you have chosen to mute/unfollow. I have over a 1000 connections and I've assiduously unfollowed/muted anyone in my network or adjacent to my network who posts anything that I feel is not substantial. A sample of interactions I had recently: Discussing cost/benefit of going for hybrid/pr…

Except LinkedIn shares anything that people interact with. It’s almost impossible to avoid the cruft imo

Yes the more people you mute the more it starts looking for contrived stuff to fill up your timeline.

Re: Shameless Work Influencers Are the Bane of LinkedIn

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Post by GekkePrutser » Sun, May 30, 2021, 2:27 AM UTC

snowwrestler wrote: post #116

At least LinkedIn (the company) got over their initial love affair with video. There was a time when my LinkedIn feed was 80% videos of people sitting in their cars over-sharing directly to the camera… because that is what “the algorithm” wanted most to promote. I basically avoided LinkedIn for months (maybe years? can’t remember) as that was going on. But yeah. Even without the videos, the LinkedIn timeline is a pre…

I think these algorithms should just die. Facebook was actually good when the feed was just all the things my friends had posted, nothing more nothing less. But then they started tinkering with algorithms and trying to find stuff I liked. Well they don't know me yhat's for sure. I had to weed through pages of crap to find one interesting bit. Glad to be off it now but LinkedIn is harder to let go.

Re: Shameless Work Influencers Are the Bane of LinkedIn

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Post by GekkePrutser » Sun, May 30, 2021, 2:33 AM UTC

jacksonkmarley wrote: post #30

> a vast circle jerk in the cloud Well, that has the ring of truth, when applied to the newsfeed. And the final conclusion that you should just get on linkedin when job searching and then get off again is fine. I find it incredibly useful for job searching, to the point that I don't even bother with other sites. However, the job search experience is badly spoiled by secondary recruitment postings. These are especiall…

Also what's super annoying when doing job searches is that they add this 'promoted' stuff that blatantly ignores your search query. I have some searches set up for jobs in my local Spanish city but every day it adds 'promoted' jobs in the US to it.