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It's a standard measure to increase the cost of fake identities to decrease spam and Sybil attacks. If you exclusively belong to communities that don't have su
by TZubiri 3y ago
It's a standard measure to increase the cost of fake identities to decrease spam and Sybil attacks.
If you exclusively belong to communities that don't have such measures, you will be dominated by third parties who create mass accounts instead of the platform.
Choose your poison I guess.
- blibble 3y agoif the guy has had the account for 20 years without being banned then he's probably not a bot its a data harvesting exercise
- avarun 3y agoYou would think that, but you’d be wrong. Old inactive accounts get purchased and sold to bot networks all the time.
- c420 3y agoAged accounts have very high value to hackers as well: https://www.vox.com/technology/2023/9/28/23892964/facebook-account-hacked-theft-stolen-online-scams-meta https://www.vox.com/technology/2023/9/28/23892964/facebook-a...
- michaelteter 3y agoNot to defend Linkedin, but it is always possible that new measures (filters) are devised by people who don't consider all the possible parameters. In other words, some less-thinking Linkedin employee decides to do a thing without adequate consideration of all the information available (such as length of time of membership). Maybe Linkedin let some moron apply rules, or Linkedin is grabbing data for marketing/sales purposes, or there's an explanation we haven't realized yet.
- throwawaysleep 3y agoAged Reddit accounts have a decent market. LinkedIn could easily be the same.
- freitasm 3y agoYep. I've seen plenty of cryptoscam posts with "Elon is giving away crypto!" and a screenshot that they pretend comes from Elon's X account. Looking at the Reddit account they can be ten years old but with no activity at all in the last five or so years, then a sudden wave of these scam posts.
- freitzkriesler2 3y agoI'm embarrassed to admit this but I created a fake LinkedIn account of a woman I used to rope in men for sales calls. I "friended" probably 200 odd linked in open networkers over the course of a week and then would flirt with guys using my catfish account. Those guys would enevitably get sappy and I would rope them onto a sales call with me as a bait and switch. I hated doing sales as well as myself and got out of it in a year. Making a fake burner linked in was trivial.
- lusus_naturae 3y agoWhat were you selling, and was your flirting via the LI app?
- dfee 3y agoBased on my messages in LinkedIn, he was probably a LinkedIn employee selling Premium.
- ExoticPearTree 3y agoyou know what they say: any app is a dating app if you are brave enough.
- lopis 3y agoYou jest, but harassment against women is rapamt on LinkedIn. Ask any of your woman colleagues the sort of messages men send them.
- freitzkriesler2 3y agoI still have my fake lady account and this is true. The thirst is real. Regardless, I use it to troll people on LinkedIn now. Especially CEOs who post nonsense. Agree? (See what i did there)
- freitzkriesler2 3y agoShitty analytics software for cpg companies.