SWAM: When LinkedIn Locks Down Social Networking

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If you post updates to LinkedIn groups, think twice before you click the “Share” button. Say the wrong thing and you might get sent to the LinkedIn penalty box for an extended period of time. According to LinkedIn policy, if a group moderator feels for any reason that your post is irrelevant or is spam, he can temporarily blacklist you from posting to that group and to all your other LinkedIn groups as well.

LinkedIn may still be the reigning champion of professional social networking, but it won’t be for long if it continues to alienate its most active participants.

In LinkedIn’s own words, “we maintain a system that helps the group’s community identify undesirable activity in all groups, and prevent that activity from recurring in other groups” This practice, popularly known as “site-wide automated moderation” or “SWAM,” is an automated response, so once the moderator’s hits the kill switch, you will be locked out of posting to any of your existing LinkedIn groups for an undisclosed amount of time, but likely several weeks.

Source: www.cmswire.com

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