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It makes sense to me that you'd need a way to regulate the platform's content to avoid it filling up with the spammy garbage that LinkedIn is known for, and I'm not sure what the right solution is. You've obviously spent more time thinking about this than I have, but my gut reaction is that this scoring approach would be super harmful for non-traditional or non-elite candidates.

To use tech as an example, in the limit, regardless of how meritocratic we claim we are as an industry, my experience has been that folks hiring technical teams are more receptive to inquiries from someone with an Ivy League education in CS than they are from someone self-taught without a degree or who has a degree in something unrelated. I assume that reaching out to several hiring managers and getting zero response would hurt your TRU score, regardless of the quality of your messages. Meanwhile a traditional candidate with a higher response rate wouldn't see their score fall quite as much, even if they couldn't pass a simple fizzbuzz technical screen.

Having to work harder than a traditional candidate to get a response is expected in this scenario, but it'd be a huge bummer if the platform itself acted as a gatekeeper in this way.