[aznpwnzor]

The way to deal with recruiter spam (and drive up wages) is to ask for a breakdown of the expected range of total compensation.

Do not budge until you get this (do not take a call).

It forces them to put skin in the game and gives you information on market rate for your time.

Even if you have already made up your mind that you are not interested, I do this and then disengage by saying sorry that is below my market rate.

[gwbas1c]

My point is that recruiters should not be trying to add themselves to my network. They should be contacting me via messaging.

The fact that LinkedIn allows this usage pattern pretty much turns me off of the entire site.

[plorkyeran]

You're talking about a step waaay further along in the process. I'm not currently looking for a job, and my linkedin profile says as much. Despite this, I still get so many recruiters asking to add themselves to my network that I ended up blocking those notifications from linkedin entirely, which probably has resulted in me missing non-spam requests from people I actually would want to connect with. I'm not going to waste my time responding to spam.