Comments on: LinkedIn Makes It Easier to Connect with People You Know, Harder with People You Don’t

By: Blahatron

Blahatron — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:45:38 +0000

@ ms. Anderson – I have exactly the same problem. I emailed their support and they replied saying that they had done a search and that I didn’t seem to have a LinkedIn Account (shock! horror!), but that I wouldn’t get invitation emails anymore. What happens a couple of days later? – I get an email from the same LinkedIn person asking me to join. Not cool. In real life this would be bordering on harrassment.

By: ms. Anderson

ms. Anderson — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:23:31 +0000

also someone can invite someone else by using the recipient’s email. I got one of those, and there was no way I could refuse the invitation.
I knew the person who invited me, but I just refused to open an account on LinkedIn. I already had one and asked them to delete it as the basterds don’t have a feature to delete your account yourself.
LinkedIn asked me to create an account to refuse the invitation. But I didn’t create an account and LinkedIn kept reminding me through email that I have an open invitation and it is about to expire. No links, no nothing to unsubscribe from that stupid automated mailing system.

This is called SPAM.

By: Kevin Masters

Kevin Masters — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 02:25:03 +0000

Can you provide more details on this?

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By: Scott Allen

Scott Allen — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 07:57:05 +0000

At the moment it seems to be duration of membership. Even some of us who applaud the basic concept think that’s way too severe and that it should be a rolling window.

Simple solution to the problem, though – slow down a bit and just e-mail people before you send them the invitation. Zero rejections using that approach.

By: Hugh

Hugh — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 07:47:45 +0000

I didnt realize that I was getting ‘rejections’ to my evites. How long do the ‘restrictions’ last for? For a specified amount of time? duration of membership?

thanks,
Hugh

By: Why Can’t I Just Say No Any More?

Why Can’t I Just Say No Any More? — Fri, 25 May 2007 15:08:02 +0000

[...] LinkedIn made some changes in the way invitations work, adding some automated consequences for sending invitations to people [...]

By: Bill Austin

Bill Austin — Mon, 07 May 2007 05:33:14 +0000

RE: Follow up to “Frozen Account”

I believe that their system is actually broken – as in – “There is a bug in there that they cannot or will not fix and they are not coming clean with users about the un-repairable defect in their code.”

My account has been restricted.

I have only sent only a couple of invitations in the last couple of months and only two since they instituted the latest “your account has been frozen” program. These were all sent to people who communicated by e-mail and who requested that I invite them to connect.

They all accepted.

There is no possible way that I could have had five people indicate that they did not know me because I have not invited five people to connect recently.

1. The system is broken.
2. They refuse to acknowledge that it is broken.
3. They refuse to fix it.
4. They refuse to correct the mess that it creates.
5. Customer Service has been non-responsive.
6. Duncan has refused to respond to my inquiries.

(Is he [Duncan] still there?)

(PS: I have since heard from Vincent Wright that Duncan no longer works for LinkedIn.)

Bill Austin
Chief Technology Officer AZhttp, Inc,
www.azhttp.com/
www.linkedin.com/in/billaustin

By: Scott Allen

Scott Allen — Mon, 07 May 2007 05:32:57 +0000

Not sure. They would certainly be able to see that the request was declined, but I don’t know if they can tell that it was specifically flagged with the “I don’t know ” button.

Also, I think it’s at least a little bit questionable that they don’t really let recipients know the consequences of clicking that button. There are some people who might not use it if they knew the consequences of it.