Dear Reid and Hari,
Hope you guys are doing well.
Let me begin this note by confessing that I LOVE Linkedin.
I am also one of the earliest adopters of your fabulous platform.
In fact, I was amongst the first 100,000 Linkedin members who signed up. I also received this e-mail letter that Reid himself sent out when Linkedin crossed 100 million users.
Now, I have a serious problem with Linkedin.
I have noticed that each time I post an update that begins to get likes and genuine comments, my wall and that particular post gets massively spammed – with the most horrific spammers one can imagine.
Check out what happened yesterday:
I posted an update that read,
“Normal guys don’t go near a lion’s den. Brave guys walk around it. Heroes stand outside the den and call the lion out. Entrepreneurs go inside the den and shout, ‘Lion, are you there?'”
This is what happened on my wall under the post on Linkedin (check the red arrows on the right side of the image):
In essence, I am getting punished for each innovative or interesting post that I make on Linkedin!!!
Sirs:
– Why can’t I simply click on the spammer’s user name and just ‘ban’ him/her from ever writing on my wall again?
This is a standard social web internet feature that must be available for your members!
– I am sure this issue is well known to you. Why haven’t you done something about it?
Given that this is such a nuisance, I genuinely believe that Linkedin will massively suffer in terms of its sociality, because it’s becoming less of a serious users’ hangout place; and becoming more of a ‘spammers’ paradise’.
Can you please, please, set this right and advise me?
A major Linkedin fan.
Alok Rodinhood Kejriwal
Alok@rodinhood.com
https://in.linkedin.com/in/alokkejriwal
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Letter sent:
Namrata Balwani
Had posted this a few days ago – LinkedIn is the new Orkut: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150887581837090&set=a.114133187089.123285.760597089&type=1
The site also has some basic usability issues (like making it way too tough to remove connections) but the recruiter spam is by far its greatest challenge.
Srikanth
I’m doing the very least I can by “sharing” this on my Linkedin profile
Himanshu Agarwal
Alok,
This is a nice observation…since I do not post much on LI profile updates I was spared by the spammers. However once you go inside LI groups, the problem assumes massive proportions, anything you post in this group…you’ll be greeted by comment spammers…
I don’t know whether comment spam is human originated or is algorithmic…I once had a online women bag seller who started comment spamming my blog on blogger.
Same stuff can happen to rodinhoods with ghost profiles created on it once it reaches say 5K or 10 K or 15 K members…to spam the posts with sales messages…
Himanshu Agarwal
I hope the members of this form know that India has surpassed U.S. to become a top spam-spewing nation – https://www.thinkdigit.com/Internet/India-surpasses-US-to-become-top-spam-spewing_9373.html
VARUN MITTAL
I also posted on my blog about – How LinkedIn is the next social network to be disrupted
https://varunmittal.info/2012/03/25/how-linkedin-is-the-next-social-network-to-be-disrupted/