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Re:Finally, I Closed My LinkedIn by ssijak on Thursday June 11, 2020 @10:53AM (#23489539)
Or people pasting gotcha dumb math “problems” where hundreds of people reply the answer. I could never understand that.
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Re:Finally, I Closed My LinkedIn by vulcan01 on Thursday June 11, 2020 @11:27AM (#23489870)
People like being told that they are smart, indirectly. If someone posts a "hard" math "problem" and the viewer can solve it... that indirectly means that the viewer is smarter than the poster. Which viewers love.
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Re:Finally, I Closed My LinkedIn by staycoolboy on Thursday June 11, 2020 @12:51PM (#23490750)
Did you read the comments from the guy that left facebook? It was like reading YouTube comments. People were flaming him from their professional accounts.
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Re:Finally, I Closed My LinkedIn by ulucs on Friday June 12, 2020 @03:35AM (#23496971)
It's like the reverse of the /g/ or /sci/ meme with a picture of Makise Kurisu saying "You should be able to solve this" accompanied by a laughably difficult problem.
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Re:Finally, I Closed My LinkedIn by the_af on Thursday June 11, 2020 @01:42PM (#23491332)
"83% of people won't be able to solve this" (some basic puzzle follows).
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Re:Finally, I Closed My LinkedIn by Phrenzy on Friday June 12, 2020 @10:16AM (#23499435)
83%‽ That's almost half!
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