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I can tell you where the bad content is being posted now. LinkedIn. My feed has turned into blogspam, exam cheatsheets, crappy AWS "architecture" diagrams, and

I can tell you where the bad content is being posted now. LinkedIn. My feed has turned into blogspam, exam cheatsheets, crappy AWS "architecture" diagrams, and low effort cyber security guides. Did you know SMTP is port 25? I'm not sure if it's recycled Medium posts, AI generated, or people actually create this crap. Others "like" and comment on it, so who knows.

shagie 3y ago
People create it (possibly with AI generation) and have it liked and commented in part to try to game the metric of "lots of posts/activity on Linked in on {subject}" to make themselves appear more impressive when either applying for a position ("1000 applicants, here are the top 5% for activity in cyber security") or increase the likelihood of having a recruiter noticing them and including their resume in the batch that gets sent to some company. The quality of the content is not of primary concern if there is too much content out there to be able to spend time evaluating it in an effort to differentiate between applicants.
dewey 3y ago
This has always been the case in my experience, I didn't really see much change over the years to be honest.
jefozabuss 3y ago
But did you know 99% of the people cannot solve these 2 math operations on these 3 sets of match sticks? Linkedin feed is turning into somehing like a 9gag of rehashed memes.
stevekemp 3y ago
Back in the day I used to collect sysadmin guides/documentation over at debian-administration.org. I've lost track of the number of times people would copy/paste who articles and series, posting it on linkedin as their own work. Usually Indians, but the second-most common nationality was Americans. I used to report it, but it happened often enough that I just gave up. My site is long-dead now, which tells you how long this has been going on, definitely 10+ years. No doubt now "AI" is commonplace it has gotten easier, but that's nothing new.
MSFT_Edging 3y ago
The MBA brainworms are trying to co-opt technical fields. Nonsense accreditation, get-rich-quick schemes laundered through misunderstood CS101 terminology. If I was interviewing one of these people and checked their linkedin and saw it was full of blogspam, I would assume they're likely lying about their skillsets and ask them to explain any of their buzzwords.
corytheboyd 3y ago
I deleted my LinkedIn profile. Don’t know if I’ll regret it later. Realized that I didn’t use it at all to get my last few jobs— that was all done by networking IRL and having a good resume. The feed was garbage, the inbox was completely full of spam… what was the point of LinkedIn again?

shagie 3y ago

People create it (possibly with AI generation) and have it liked and commented in part to try to game the metric of "lots of posts/activity on Linked in on {subject}" to make themselves appear more impressive when either applying for a position ("1000 applicants, here are the top 5% for activity in cyber security") or increase the likelihood of having a recruiter noticing them and including their resume in the batch that gets sent to some company. The quality of the content is not of primary concern if there is too much content out there to be able to spend time evaluating it in an effort to differentiate between applicants.

dewey 3y ago

This has always been the case in my experience, I didn't really see much change over the years to be honest.

jefozabuss 3y ago

But did you know 99% of the people cannot solve these 2 math operations on these 3 sets of match sticks? Linkedin feed is turning into somehing like a 9gag of rehashed memes.

stevekemp 3y ago

Back in the day I used to collect sysadmin guides/documentation over at debian-administration.org. I've lost track of the number of times people would copy/paste who articles and series, posting it on linkedin as their own work. Usually Indians, but the second-most common nationality was Americans. I used to report it, but it happened often enough that I just gave up. My site is long-dead now, which tells you how long this has been going on, definitely 10+ years. No doubt now "AI" is commonplace it has gotten easier, but that's nothing new.

MSFT_Edging 3y ago

The MBA brainworms are trying to co-opt technical fields. Nonsense accreditation, get-rich-quick schemes laundered through misunderstood CS101 terminology. If I was interviewing one of these people and checked their linkedin and saw it was full of blogspam, I would assume they're likely lying about their skillsets and ask them to explain any of their buzzwords.

corytheboyd 3y ago

I deleted my LinkedIn profile. Don’t know if I’ll regret it later. Realized that I didn’t use it at all to get my last few jobs— that was all done by networking IRL and having a good resume. The feed was garbage, the inbox was completely full of spam… what was the point of LinkedIn again?