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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 peterburkimsher »

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 Facebook or LinkedIn.

I manually viewed 55 LinkedIn profiles over the course of 2 hours, and copy-pasted out only their "spoken language" field.

LinkedIn proceeded to block my account. "Your account has violated the LinkedIn User Agreement and Professional Community Policies. Due to the number and/or the severity of these violations, this account has been permanently restricted."

Politely explaining the situation to several customer service agents [Case: 211020-004202] didn't help. Had I been warned about viewing too many profiles too quickly, I'd certainly have slowed down! My actions weren't automated. I'd rather return to their online community and make this a learning experience, if possible.

Being unable to use LinkedIn may affect my future career prospects, but I feel powerless to change it at this stage.

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

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Post by ratww »

braingenious wrote: post #48
ratww wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Educational images of drugs definitely aren't illegal, but OP is clearly talking about advertisement for illegal drugs in image format.

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In the real world there is stuff that is illegal and some of those things can be in image format.

And the part that sucks is clearly the retaliation from whoever it was.

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

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Post by braingenious »

ratww wrote: post #52
braingenious wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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In the real world there is stuff that is illegal and some of those things can be in image format. And the part that sucks is clearly the retaliation from whoever it was.

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

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Post by usrn »

LewisVerstappen wrote: post #33
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).

All this counter-intuitive crap is why I don't ever even open LinkedIn.

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

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Post by labster »

I don’t understand why people are surprised to lose social media accounts like this. Companies decide to stop selling products all the time. We don’t see posts like this every time Wal-Mart decides to stop selling some brand of cookies, and it’s essentially the same relationship we have as their products.

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

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Post by wruza »

anshumankmr wrote: post #49
LewisVerstappen wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

Isn't that a bug? If you report someone,the person should not be able to see who reported them, right??

Technically they aren’t. Like when you visit a site, other sites cannot, oh wait…
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