Because of your post, I went there, did the same search and reported a bunch of them. Now let's see what happens!
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
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You're clearly trolling. You so far called the OP of this thread (who is a member here), "rando spammer", "misguided", "naive" and "fucking idiot". Considering that that it seems even a Microsoft employee offered support to him, it seems that you're alone in your opinion. Also please take some time to self reflect that maybe those adjectives you used apply to you instead.
Do you think that it’s possible that the OP was not the victim of a large coordinated criminal conspiracy? That is what has been implied and discussed and I’m “trolling” by suggesting that that was not the case. Edit: Also, food for thought: I genuinely did not know you could buy drugs through linkedin. In the OP’s complaint I’ve been informed of what website to go to, what app to install, and what search terms I sho…
You called other member here some terrible stuff that was uncalled for, and now you're suggesting they're advertising drugs on HN. You're a troll, and you're being asshole to another member.
I don't care about your cuckoo fantasy theories and nobody else does. You're out of your depth and out of your mind if you think any of your ideas make sense.
So, stop the trolling and stop trying to save face.
Re: Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam
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Why assume it's linkedin official policy rather than some rogue linkedin employees making money on the side?
Because they've had official policy that was user-hostile in the past. For example: scraping user address books and sending all their contacts LinkedIn spam without asking permission.
Didn't most things do that back in the day? LinkedIn (owned by Microsoft!) supporting drug spam sounds ludicrous.
Re: Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam
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Who are the predominant users of LinkedIn then? Marketing mostly, or is it recruiters? Startup founders? How do you measure "activity" in this scenario - is it public postings or are we including the private messages that people send about jobs? I see a lot of useless posts end up on my feed - self congratulations and a lot of what equates to a press release for some product - but those have to target a user base of…
Every college student in the world has a LinkedIn account, whether they want one or not. That's a gigantic userbase of engaged users.
That seems unlikely, given that any EU institution unnecessarily sharing personal details with LinkedIn would be breaking the law.
Re: Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam
#245Of 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 just wanted to say that you made my day, @retSava, with that /r/linkedinlunatics community :D
I haven't been reading my LI feed for at least 6 years now. I had no idea how quirky things were there. Wow. Just wow.
Re: Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam
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It may be simpler than that, one cause of rejection is you working in the US while not allowed. I keep hearing about people that get busted (most by the time they are reaching customs) by pictures or messages on their social media accounts showing that they worked (even just helping family) while in US on tourist visas.
So when I find my rival is visiting the USA, I can set up a linkedin with his name on and write "Working in Seattle for a few months as a plumber. $$$ is good here!". And they'll be arrested?
I am not a lawyer but that could well be a federal felony.
Maybe you can prove them in person it is not your account, but that mean you would have to get a real visa not an ESTA.
Re: Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam
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Anyone who has worked front-line customer support knows why all the roadblocks are in place; it's a massive firehose of absolute junk 90% of the time.
Yep. One job I had was to work on a team to automate the destruction of 99% of all job applications coming from the internet while still nominally being in compliance with EEOC. We figured out a number of ways. The company actually ONLY hired people directly recommended by employees or trusted business partners. 100% of all unsolicited resumes were ignored and destroyed (yet had a paper trial for legal and EEOC compl…
that employer is part of the reason job hunting is so miserable
Re: Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam
#248Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you think that it’s possible that the OP was not the victim of a large coordinated criminal conspiracy? That is what has been implied and discussed and I’m “trolling” by suggesting that that was not the case. Edit: Also, food for thought: I genuinely did not know you could buy drugs through linkedin. In the OP’s complaint I’ve been informed of what website to go to, what app to install, and what search terms I sho…
You called other member here some terrible stuff that was uncalled for, and now you're suggesting they're advertising drugs on HN. You're a troll, and you're being asshole to another member. I don't care about your cuckoo fantasy theories and nobody else does. You're out of your depth and out of your mind if you think any of your ideas make sense. So, stop the trolling and stop trying to save face.
Do you think that it is possible that the OP is not the victim of a criminal conspiracy?
Edit: I don’t really understand the position of “you said a swear word so I will fundamentally disagree with your underlying point.”
If the OP has said fuck or piss or shit while describing their experience of being the victim of a criminal conspiracy, would your position on this matter reflect mine?
Thank you for your unsolicited advice, but I implore you to provide your (very simple) solicited opinion from the first sentence of this post. Namaste.
Re: Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam
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Recruiters pin you on LinkedIn all the time for interviews as well.
Getting recruiters to talk to me isn't something you should really struggle with...
I dont have struggle, they reach out to me on LinkedIn. LinkedIn helps them to find you, unless you are just hoping they would just guess your email, etc... lol
Re: Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam
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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.
I’ll try explaining this again, as someone who used to moderate content professionally.
There are certain groups of users that you generally _HAVE_ to ban for a functioning community. Spammers, scammers, criminals, nazis and… so as to not offend you, “people that apparently lack fundamental understanding of, well, anything”
This last group is often the worst group to deal with because while they’re not directly harming the community they are sucking up your time that could be spent banning pedophiles or identity thieves or drug dealers. They often suck up an immense amount of time by filling up your reports queue and are sure that their issue deserves your immediate attention, and if you don’t drop what you’re doing and address their issues instantly, they complain. This means you have to take more time away from moderating to field emails in addition to de-cluttering your queue.
It is absolutely crucial to ban these types of spammers, otherwise you can’t do anything productive. Generally this type of ban is temporary unless the self-appointed mod is particularly egregious.
And then there is a subset of these people: let’s call them “crusaders.” This group will make as much noise as possible offsite in order to Own The Mods. They might even invent a conspiracy theory about a shadowy underground group that has it out for them.
OP could have reported one account and included a note saying “this phenomenon is happening when you search this keyword.” They did not do that. They decided to tackle the issue themselves. When their mod queue spam got them banned, they whined as publicly as possible, which takes up even more time that could’ve been spent actually removing drug dealers.
The inclusion of “illegal imagery” in the complaint was factually wrong, and since moderators have to deal with a LOT of reports, it absolutely makes sense why this was ignored. When you say “illegal imagery”, in some cases that means child pornography or state secrets or any number of things that are meaningful to somebody whose job it is to moderate content.
So to summarize: I am certainly not the only person to consider this person a “fucking idiot”, I’m just the only one that said that on here.