Comments on: LinkedIn SNAFU

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DMCA, DNT & Other Follies « Kynosarges Weblog — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 11:28:55 +0000

[...] its page owners to pay for sponsored posts if they wish to be noticed by their own fans. LinkedIn spams connection requests that the account holder never authorized. Across multiple services, private users get paid for [...]

By: Dan G

Dan G — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 13:56:59 +0000

Reminds me of this (old but still great): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUdpj3gJofQ

By: Nimble Digit

Nimble Digit — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 01:59:35 +0000

And here I thought this was part of Bob's grand post-blog master plan. Or, maybe it is...

By: Bunny

Bunny — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 12:51:34 +0000

Hey Bob...welcome to the internet!

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Mon, 17 Sep 2012 16:31:22 +0000

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This Week in Small Business: GoDaddy Goes Dark « Gene Marks — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:33:38 +0000

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By: Brad Watson

Brad Watson — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:25:11 +0000

And I will third LinkedIn's usefulness. Just like above, one or two opportunities over the years more than made up for small annoyances with the service. However... it would be hard to forgive something like what happened to Bob. And not because it's necessarily "spam" because, after all, linking account it what LinkedIn does. What I don't understand is how it decides to allow a regular (non-premium) account issue blanket requests. They're the ones that recommend and insist upon all links being meaningful, and give you tools for filtering random connection requests. And then they do something like this and undo everything. :/

By: Stuart S

Stuart S — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 12:35:47 +0000

Same thing happened to me. I agree with some of the above comments that they purposely put up a "login" box with fields designed to look like you need to fill it out to log in to Linkedin and it prefills with your email address but actually is a cross site box to your email account which they then spam. Like you I consider myself a careful reader and user yet I still "fell" for this trick. Very annoying and under handed.