Would you consider a tool that tracks your activity locally so you don't get banned useful?
I've been going through hell for the last month. I was banned from LinkedIn for excessive activity.
For 24 hours
For 48 hours
For 72 hours
For 168 hours - currently waiting until Tuesday, 10 PM CET.
The only useful advice I've received from support is to be less active.
So I'll have to limit my activity.
At the moment, this whole situation motivates me to work on a partial solution – some kind of activity tracker, where data wouldn't leave your devices but would give you an overview of how much activity quota you have available.
What features would you like?
Has anyone had a problem with these restrictions for LinkedIn or other networks, too?
[I am doing my own research.]
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Curious to know what activity led to this rate limit exactly? Was it searching for people, viewing their profile and sending requests or something else? A week long ban is a big one.
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@aryshsharma I suppose it was accumulated activity, but in general, comments.
I've been rate limited but never banned in the way you describe; but if you're posting comments and they are towards the conversation isn't that what a social media company wants? I would understand if the comments were reported, but just posting seems a bit off - maybe if you made several hundreds in a day I could maybe see it, but even still.
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@dr_simon_wallace I think that at first, I contributed 100 comments, so they started shrinking my daily quota with each ban.
That's interesting, do they have current guidelines to what define excessive activity? How do they quantify it?
For the tool, that's an interesting project, something similar to what one might have on his phone to track social media usage?
minimalist phone: reduce your screentime
@thegreatsalimos Not completely a tracker of social media, just an activity to overcome the ban. There is no official limit, but I am the one who tests the water (was restricted many many times) :D
Fastlane
ok, can't lie, yes!
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@gauravthapa Trust me, I have motivation to do it like anybody else, because I do not want to lose my account with 9 followers.
Fastlane
@busmark_w_nika i feel like this applies to many platforms too, like Reddit for sureeee
PS Thanks for checking out the launch for Fastlane haha, awesome to see
minimalist phone: reduce your screentime
@gauravthapa I do not want to touch Reddit :D They hate me there too :D And I am not so passionate about that platform.
You are welcome :D