Agreed. LinkedIn used to be great, but is not completely unusable. The website itself is awful to use, but the community is even worse. It is now just a tool

Agreed. LinkedIn used to be great, but is not completely unusable. The website itself is awful to use, but the community is even worse. It is now just a tool for shameless recruiters to spam left and right. I spent a lot of time working on my profile, clearly explaining that I reject connection requests from strangers, that I ignore messages for open jobs which don't include a certain set of items and I still get spammed all day long. The problem is LinkedIn gets its money from recruiters who signed up for premium accounts so they cater to them.