CEO of Stocktwits Howard Lindzon starts attacking his own users aggressively on Saturday night in a completely unhinged way. His own AI calls him out... 🤦

Its not directly from LinkedIn, but have a satire about the leaders's post. I think the lady captures the mindset of the lunatics vefore posting something cringe on the LinkedIn.

Commented on a post from Reclectic (URBN is their parent company) about declining quality/selection as they rapidly expand to new stores pretty tame stuff, ‘agreed,’ ‘used to be good, not anymore,’ that kind of thing. Comment got deleted, along with several others saying the same thing.

Got a DM afterward (screenshot 1) that didn’t mention the deletion at all — just a generic ‘inventory varies across locations, we’re excited to grow’ message.

After I posted publicly about the deletion, got a second DM (screenshot 2) claiming they only delete comments ‘flagged by Instagram,’ and apologizing if the first message ‘came across as disingenuous.’

Reposted the same comment. Deleted again. Third time now.

Two different explanations, 15 minutes apart, and the second one doesn’t hold up Instagram doesn’t flag ‘agreed’ and ‘quality has gone downhill.’ At this point it’s pretty clearly just quiet moderation of anything critical, dressed up as policy.

I recently had the privilege of witnessing Taco Bell’s revolutionary ordering system, the one where an employee must ask whether the customer wants extra meat, extra cheese, or jalapeños after every individual item.

Customer: “I’ll have a Crunchwrap.”

Employee: “Would you like extra meat, extra cheese, or jalapeños?”

Customer: “No, thank you. I’ll like to order a taco”

Employee: “Would you like extra meat, extra cheese, or jalapeños?”

Customer: “No. I’ll like to add a burrito to my order”

Employee: “Would you like extra meat, extra cheese, or jalapeños?”

Customer: “Still no. I’ll like to add a chalupa to my order.”

Employee: “Would you like extra meat, extra cheese, or jalapeños?”

Customer: “Actually, I would like to speak to the person who believes my memory resets every time I name a menu item.”

What a breathtaking triumph of marketing over ordinary human cognition.

Some unimaginative person might ask once, “Would you like any add-ons with those items?” But you understood that customers must be given repeated opportunities to reconsider their deeply held, four-second-old opposition to jalapeños.

Perhaps after declining extra cheese on the first item, the customer will experience a profound spiritual transformation before ordering the second. By the fourth item, relentless exposure to the phrase “extra meat” may finally unlock a repressed childhood longing for double beef.

This policy brilliantly inconveniences everyone involved. It annoys the customer, humiliates the employee, slows the line, and makes a normal conversation sound like two poorly programmed chatbots trapped in an infinite loop which seems ridiculous considering how good chatbots are these days.

But the greatest achievement is how perfectly it captures modern corporate intelligence: identify a simple human interaction, remove all human judgment from it, insert a mandatory script, repeat it until everyone becomes visibly miserable, and then call the resulting misery “customer engagement.”

I can only imagine the meeting where this masterpiece was born:

“Customers sometimes buy add-ons.”

“Excellent. Let’s have employees mention them.”

“Once per order?”

“Don’t be ridiculous, Susan. What if the customer suffers complete memory loss between the chalupa and the burrito?”

“And if they decline the first three times?”

“Ask again. The fourth rejection is where brand loyalty begins.”

To be clear, the employees are not the problem. They are the unwilling performers in a corporate production. They know the customer heard them. The customer knows they know. But both must continue the ritual because somewhere, a spreadsheet demands a sacrifice.

So, congratulations to the marketing professional who engineered this system. You haven’t merely sold tacos. You have pioneered a customer experience in which ordering lunch feels like being interrogated by a cheese-obsessed parole officer.

I think our local news needs to consider what ads get pasted in what stories and where in the stories they appear.

I redacted the person's first name from the story.

Very funny series of notifications to encourage me to continue my opening streak when they can’t even put clearly spam in the spam folder.

You are a mail app, you do mail. It’s like if my fridge asked me to continue my food streak

Started a customer survey for Pick 'n Save and noticed this new disclaimer, highlighted by the red rectangle. Now, why on God's green earth would any corporate entity think it's okay to even consider this, let alone pay employees to work on this? What are they thinking??? What is the value of something that could be "inaccurate, incomplete, or inapplicable"? Do you want to screw with your customers' heads? How is that of value to either the company or the customer?

This looks like some sort of fight between marketing and the legal department. Nothing like a company deploying a tool they don't fully trust to collect data they heavily rely on, eh?

Imagine the data cleaning this would require afterwards, just nuts. Also, they are making consumers the beta testers of their stupidity. Ack!

Later on in the survey I was asked if I visited the "Murray Cheese" area and, if I did, how was the experience. My store doesn't have such a thing, never heard of it before!

This is really common among even well established "been around for a while" startups, too!

Now has 100+ presets to test

check it out:-

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How do you make an ad that's supposed to be and AMA and then turn comments off? Not to mention the cringe "how do you do fellow kids" image they used.

My LinkedIn account got temporarily restricted about 2 weeks ago, apparently triggered by a VPN login. What followed was one of the most frustrating, contradictory, and privacy-invasive support experiences I've ever had.

Here's the timeline:

• Account gets restricted. I open a support ticket immediately. They responded the same day.
• I reach out to u/LinkedInHelp on X. After back and forth, they escalate my case to the safety team.
• I receive an official email from a LinkedIn Trust and Consumer Support Consultant explicitly stating that to regain access, I need to upload "a driver's license, passport, or country ID" through their Persona verification portal.
• I attempt verification using my national ID (country-issued ID — which they literally listed as accepted). The Persona portal keeps rejecting it with errors like "Couldn't verify photos — make sure ID details are clear to read" and "Make sure the encoded text at the very bottom is not obscured."
• I retry over 10 times across 2 weeks. Same errors every time.
• I contact support repeatedly via both email and X. I get the classic "wait 24-72 hours" response every single time, with no actual resolution.
• After weeks of attempts, screenshots submitted, and multiple escalations — they finally tell me: passport is the only accepted form of ID in my region. National IDs and driver's licenses are not supported.

Let that sink in. Their own support consultant explicitly listed national ID as an accepted document. I submitted it over 10 times. I handed over my personal identity document to their third-party verification provider (Persona) repeatedly — only to be told weeks later that it was never going to work in the first place.

The problems with this:

1. They gave false information. Their official support email listed national ID as accepted. It wasn't. That's not a miscommunication — that's a failure of their own support process that cost me weeks and my privacy.
2. My ID data is now sitting with Persona with no successful outcome. I submitted my national ID over 10 times to a third-party system. LinkedIn's own verification system collected my biometric and identity data repeatedly, and I have nothing to show for it.
3. The regional restriction is discriminatory. Users in certain regions are effectively locked out of their accounts with no viable alternative, through no fault of their own. If your passport happens to be unavailable for any reason, you're simply told "wait." Your account, your professional network, your career connections — all frozen indefinitely.
4. Support is a loop. Every escalation ends with "wait 24-72 hours." No one takes ownership. Different agents give contradictory information. The left hand clearly doesn't know what the right hand is doing.

I'm not the only one dealing with this. LinkedIn has quietly built a system where certain users have no real path to account recovery, while collecting their most sensitive personal data in the process.

Has anyone else experienced this? Particularly users in regions where Persona's passport-only policy applies?