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There are two things you can do with this information: 1) Balk at its seeming absurdity 2) Assume linkedin is a rational company and take the seeming absurdit
by thatthatis 12y ago
There are two things you can do with this information:
1) Balk at its seeming absurdity
2) Assume linkedin is a rational company and take the seeming absurdity as an insight into how to convert free users into premium users.
It is shocking how little it takes to convince some people to pull out their credit cards and sign up for an annual subscription.
- Kequc 12y agoNumber two has to assume Linkedin is not only a rational company but also a competent one. I deleted my Linkedin account almost a decade ago and I still get mail from them. When I try to unsubscribe from the spam they send me I am dragged through the sign in procedure, for an account I do not have. When I use the forgot password function to try and figure out what account they are talking about and I enter all of my addresses one by one eventually finding out I definitely do not have any account. I am by this time so frustrated that I want to kick my computer down the stairs. Every single step that has anything to do with not giving them money by the way is met with Captcha. I've never filled out so many captchas as when I tried to unsubscribe from Linkedin spam. My only remaining option was to mark all email from them as spam. Stop using Linkedin. I certainly won't think fondly of anyone who tries to add me there. People just put my email address into a box and I get an email from Linkedin on top of the spam the company still sends me.
- deleted 12y ago[deleted]
- nollidge 12y agoSee this post elsewhere on the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7674630 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7674630