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by FistfulOfHaws 164 days ago
Similar thing happened to me. Randomly one of my LinkedIn posts got a ton of likes, so I figured I would look through the list of people who liked and try to figure out where they were coming from/if they would be interesting to reach out to.

After viewing a 100 or so profiles, I was logged out of LinkedIn and when I tried to log back in my account was suspended. I was in LinkedIn jail for like a week, and when I was finally able to login again I got the automatic tool warning and had to agree that I wouldn’t use one again (even though I never had used one).
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convolvatron 164 days ago
they did the same to me just by going through the job listings and x-ing out the ones that I wasn't interested in. of course for some reason that doesn't really work, the keep coming back, but wth, might as well try to keep down the noise.

you have been suspended for the use of automation

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jmye 164 days ago
An aside, but…

> of course for some reason that doesn't really work, the keep coming back

What the heck is that about? It’s deeply frustrating.

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