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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

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Post by ratww »

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…

I think everyone else is also "clueless" about it, I don't think the jury is out for the possibilities you can have as a Linkedin influencer.

Some people seem to be advertising their coaching services (for example: by targeting people looking for jobs), some are trying to advertise themselves professionally (lots of people showing Microsoft/Oracle/AWS certificates and writing articles about it), some are trying to advertise themselves as industry leaders so they can advance internally in their company, some are trying to build a network they can recruit from, and some are just misguided and are trying to replicate what they see on other networks.

I guess that's why content is all over the place.

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

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Post by LewisVerstappen »

na4ma4 wrote: post #17

I wonder if more those accounts have pro and can see you viewed them recently, probably multiple accounts are owned by the same groups so when they get a report on a bunch of posts they simple map "who looked at both profiles".

They don't even need LinkedIn Pro btw, they just have to turn Private Mode off.

If you let other people see that you viewed their profile then LinkedIn will let you see who viewed your profile.

So yeah your theory seems most likely unless OP had Private Mode turned on for his profile (then they wouldn't be able to see that he saw their profile regardless of whether or not they have LinkedIn Pro).

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

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Post by rhizome31 »

zelphirkalt wrote: post #21

Good to know, makes me consider closing my account myself. Linkedin always had a bit of a scammy feeling to it. Especially when it comes to recruiters' spam messages.

I did that maybe 10 years ago and haven't had a single opportunity to regret.

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

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Post by greatartiste »

I 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.

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

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Post by ratww »

encryptluks2 wrote: post #22
jjbinx007 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is the main reason I will never use LinkedIn. Context: https://medium.com/@danrschlosser/linkedin-dark-patterns-3ae...

I always set my LinkedIn at the max privacy. I deleted my LinkedIn account over 8 months ago. I still get spam from recruiters in my email that uses my LinkedIn name which is different than my real name. LinkedIn definitely does not follow privacy settings.

Also lots of companies are mining data from Linkedin and building email databases.

As soon as Linkedin knows I switched companies I start receiving a deluge of spam on "guessed" emails (first_name@company.com, first_name.last_name@company.com).

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

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Post by ge96 »

greatartiste wrote: post #36

I 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.

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

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Post by Nextgrid »

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…

> Is there some monetary gain from that?

I think that people who are "active" on LinkedIn rank higher in searches & suggestions, so the feel-good shitposts might be a way to improve their "SEO" if they rely on LinkedIn to find leads (recruiters, etc).

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