Earlier this fall, I shared an article about how we’re committed to keeping LinkedIn a place for authentic and meaningful conversations. That hasn’t changed and neither has our resolve to tackle behavior that undermines trust and that includes engagement pods - a coordinated set of people who trade likes and comments to artificially boost the virality of their content. Over the last few months, we’ve continued to take significant steps to address this. We’ve removed LinkedIn groups exhibiting signs of engagement pod behaviors. We’ve also reached out to thousands of members whose actions showed signs of participation in engagement pods or use of automated commenting tools, reminding them of our policies and warning of possible account restrictions and removals from LinkedIn programs, including Top Voices. Our work doesn’t stop here. We’ll keep taking action to ensure conversations on LinkedIn remain genuine and valuable for everyone.
What would be really helpful is if we could have a report option that is actually helping us to flag these automation pods to you. Any chancve this could be added?
Oscar...Travis Hutchinson and I had a great chat about this a few weeks back. Ive got some really great things to show you about this if you can carve put 20 min in the next few weeks. It's well worth your time, I guarantee it...so much so, I'd pay for your time if you think in any way it was wasted.
I support all efforts against the nightmare of AI-generated comments (usually relying on known web browser extensions that I won't name). Those who behaved like bots without reading anything and kept rewriting the posts' content at scale with zero added value deserve to be banned! Because of how valuable the comment sections under posts are, this abuse negatively affected our collective behavior. We are now suspicious of many comments and this unnecessarily increase our cognitive load. I'm really glad things are changing regarding this digital pollution. I've helped LI teams in the past and I'm ready to do it again if needed. But I have to warn the teams against relying on aggressive countermeasures because, in the past 2 weeks, I've seen several genuine people disconnected from all their devices simply because they had many LinkedIn tabs open. A few recruiters have been banned for no reason whatsoever. Let's be strict with the guilty without punishing the innocents. Once again, the anti-abuse algorithms have to be fine-tuned to avoid side effects.
Oscar Rodriguez it is not difficult to spot serial podders : 1a. Their Posts have a combination of Instagram like photo/ photo collage + ChatGPT generated Broetry + link to course 1b. Some others only post viral videos from YT/ TikTok 2. For both 1a. and 1b., the same cohort of “Top Voice” podders are liking and commenting on each others posts 3. Their posts garner hundreds of likes and comments within a few minutes and then the engagement remains comparatively stagnant 4. Every post has a mention of “authenticity”and “vulnerability” and agree ? 5. Link to to*****e.io and got featured on Times Square…. Many other indicators…
Engaging authentically is the backbone of meaningful connection. Looking forward to exploring collaborations with those who prioritize integrity let's keep building spaces where trust and real dialogue flourish.
Oscar - Glad to see LinkedIn prioritizing authentic, meaningful engagement. I have seen a huge shift (personally) though.
I'm so happy to see LinkedIn taking this seriously - it puts off so many new people from posting. Is there a way we can report pods to LinkedIn?
Good to see some progress being made on this front. It’s been going on for far too long.
Authentic engagement always trumps artificial metrics for building genuine professional relationships.
Great. Now how about giving us more tools for a customized feed experience? LinkedIns algorithm is a lost cause so give users most power in their experience. We need things like hidden words to avoid things coming up that aren't relevant, follow only feed NOT what people I follow like, mute for 60 or 90 days - sometimes you need a break from peoples spamming but don't want to unfollow forever, and also a mute button for people you see in searches or comments who spam topics. Empowering the users with these kind of tools would be huge. The feeds are hard to enjoy and scroll anymore.