Shameless Work Influencers Are the Bane of LinkedIn

Re:Shameless Work Influencers Are the Bane of LinkedIn by hliyan on Saturday May 29, 2021 @11:09AM (#27325735)

Counterpoint: as it is with Facebook, the quality of your feed depends entirely on your connections and who among those connections you have chosen to mute/unfollow. I have over a 1000 connections and I've assiduously unfollowed/muted anyone in my network or adjacent to my network who posts anything that I feel is not substantial.

A sample of interactions I had recently:

Discussing cost/benefit of going for hybrid/private cloud deployments while discussing this article with another company's VP Eng: https://a16z.com/2021/05/27/cost-of-cloud-paradox-market-cap...

Reminiscing over (paper) mechanical drawings from university days and reconnecting with a few colleagues I've lost touch with in the intervening 20 years.

Interior designs of some of the newer office spaces in the city that are aimed at tech startups.

Comparing notes on the "Messy Middle" of startups with another founder.

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Re:Shameless Work Influencers Are the Bane of LinkedIn by entropic88 on Saturday May 29, 2021 @11:16AM (#27325775)

This is great have you considered writing a LinkedIn article about it?

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Re:Shameless Work Influencers Are the Bane of LinkedIn by catillac on Saturday May 29, 2021 @11:19AM (#27325801)

I actually read a short post on HN about this recently. It’s here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27325735

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Re:Shameless Work Influencers Are the Bane of LinkedIn by sosodev on Saturday May 29, 2021 @12:40PM (#27326404)

Except LinkedIn shares anything that people interact with. It’s almost impossible to avoid the cruft imo

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Re:Shameless Work Influencers Are the Bane of LinkedIn by GekkePrutser on Saturday May 29, 2021 @10:24PM (#27330093)

Yes the more people you mute the more it starts looking for contrived stuff to fill up your timeline.

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Re:Shameless Work Influencers Are the Bane of LinkedIn by freewilly1040 on Saturday May 29, 2021 @11:46AM (#27325991)

That isn’t really a counterpoint. If you have to assiduously pick through a thousand connections to prevent a tide of spam from taking over your feed, it’s not a very useful tool.

You could technically dig a trench with a spoon, but why would you?

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Re:Shameless Work Influencers Are the Bane of LinkedIn by 0xbadcafebee on Saturday May 29, 2021 @05:40PM (#27328439)

To get the most career-inspiring worms

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