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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@ph_bernard I think it was because of many comments.
Happycapy
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@bartvandekooij quo is new to me. I was also thinking whether X has similar restrictions.
@bartvandekooij @busmark_w_nika Nika, X has restrictions but they’re extremely high. It’s very hard to exceed them.
Something like: 500 DMs, 2,400 tweets + comments, 400 follows per day. It’s really, really difficult to go over those limits.
@byalexai These are new limitations on X. Back in the days, we could follow, unfollow, DM 1000 times per day. Then spammers arrived and the platform changed everything. :D
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@bartvandekooij @byalexai Did you test them Alex? :D
Hey Nika,
I've worked with seven social media companies, big and small, and every platform has explicit or implicit restrictions on actions like following, unfollowing, or sending DMs.
For example,
Product Hunt used to cap follows at around 50 per hour on the mobile app.
On LinkedIn, stick to safe limits, say, 100 invites per week max, though some push further (but you don't know the exact threshold).
I got banned on LinkedIn 7 years ago, right after going viral with 100k views in 2018 as one of the platform's early big hits. Although they brought me back, I haven't posted since.
Sorry this happened to you. Hope you get your account back soon. Let me know if I can help with anything.
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@rohanrecommends Hey Rohan, from where do you know those quotas? Are they publicly available, or did ChatGPT give this data?
@busmark_w_nika Hey Nika, ChatGPT lies a lot with outdated information or picking someone's opinion from the internet. It's just limited by its training data from the past and can't access real-time updates if its not available prominently on the internet.
At its core, it's repackaging internet content into chat form, with no proprietary intelligence. That's why it still thinks Product Hunt has a "Coming Soon" page, even though we've removed it.
On the quotas, I got the details straight from LinkedIn and through my own experimentation. I'll drop the links below for you to check.
Example,
https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a553226
https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a551012
https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a551295
The limits on connection invites are unique to each account based on their account age, activity, premium status, total connections, acceptance rate, past outstanding invites and more.
If you were rate limited for commenting, try checking how many comments you were making every day.
Hope this helps! :)
Clawther
Hey @busmark_w_nika
Love this idea, sounds really useful.
I’d love a real-time activity counter with early warnings before hitting limits.
And tracking for sent messages (like DMs on LinkedIn, Reddit, Facebook…) would be super useful too (messaging limits are often the easiest to hit).
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@amraniyasser I am not so sure whether messages can be tracked to such an extent, but I will try to come up with something :D Because it is also a difference when someone is a warm contact vs a cold contact.
Really interesting idea! A few features I’d love in an activity tracker like this:
Real-time activity overview – see how close you are to hitting platform limits.
Customizable alerts – get notified before you risk a temporary ban.
Historical trends – track daily/weekly activity to spot patterns.
Privacy-first design – all data stays on the device, no cloud uploads.
Action breakdown – messages, connections, posts, likes, etc., separately.
Predictive guidance – suggest optimal activity pacing to avoid restrictions.
Curious to see how you balance simplicity with these insights sounds like a tool many of us would use!
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@emmanuel_afolabi No worries, I will not be paying for an additional service to store someone's data :D I am not that generous, lol.
I’ve hit this a few times as well, usually when doing a lot of similar actions back to back. A tool would be useful if it shows when you’re getting close to that point in real time. Not just total activity but how quickly you’re doing things. A tracker could help, but only if it shows those patterns clearly. Otherwise, people just keep doing the same thing and hit the limit again.
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@arun_tamang have you spotted these bans only for LinkedIn, or also for other platforms?
@busmark_w_nika Yeah, Reddit as well. You can be fine when activity is spread out, but once you start engaging across multiple threads in a short window, it starts getting limited. It’s similar to LinkedIn, the issue isn’t the action itself, it’s how the sequence looks from the outside. And you only really see that after you get flagged.
You probably know about this solution for your tracker, but in case you don't, a pretty much straightforward userscript (in javascript) run with greasemonkey (or similar) should be able to easily count your clicks & submit, save them in indexedb (browser database) and display them in a layer over linkedin pages.
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@kapkap I didn't know about that. I am a total newbie, so any advice is welcome :)
@busmark_w_nika I think AI code is only slop (even it was just 0.1% - but it's way more - it makes all the rest dirty) & useless, but for such small tasks it might do fine.
Just ask it for a userscript for greasemonkey (I prefer tampermonkey personally, it works the same) for linkedin pages that :
- add events handler to count your clicks on submit a reply or a post on linkedin website (if he doesn't have access to linkedin html you'll probably have to copy paste for him the html element of the submit buttons in the page) or whatever you wnat to track
- Create a dedicated db & a store for your stats in indexdDB on first run/if not exist
- Store the counter in indexeddb and reset it to 0 every day or new day a session is started
- displays the count on an overlayed layer on the page (tell it size, color, legend, maybe add a reset counter, in case it gets sloppy with the db auto reset) with a refresh of the layer after every update of the counter in indexeddb
End the prompt asking it to ask you 3 questions to clarify your prompt (so it doesn't slop too much)
Install your preferred monkey addon in the browser, add the script to it; refresh linkedin, done (if no slop, can't promise)
Okan
I've hit that exact wall when doing early customer outreach, and it's incredibly frustrating how opaque LinkedIn's rate limits actually are. A local tracker makes perfect sense since we can't rely on their vague support advice to stay safe. If you build this, the main feature I'd want is customizable daily thresholds with a subtle browser notification when I'm at 80 percent capacity. It would also be huge if the tool could distinguish between connection requests and standard comments, since those definitely seem to carry different weights in their penalty algorithm.
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@y_taka I think this is more matter of quotas for different activities. Also would be cool to know whether each account carries a different weight, e.g. with Premium, verified, not verified etc.
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.