It also doesn't seem like they've made any effort to combat this kind of blind spamming. I can't rate the quality of a blind inbound from someone I don't know (

It also doesn't seem like they've made any effort to combat this kind of blind spamming. I can't rate the quality of a blind inbound from someone I don't know (which is almost certainly from one of their paying customers.) And I can't see how others have rated that individual's communications in the past. So there's really little incentive for recruiters to be more judicious, and that's going to hurt LinkedIn eventually. (But obviously, those are also it's paying customers and most of us are just bait to attract them.) We expect quality ratings when interacting on Ebay... shouldn't we get them on LinkedIn, which is just another type of peer-to-peer marketplace? They've created something similar with endorsements (for job seekers) but is there anything similar in terms of recruiters?