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?
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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.
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@arun_tamang Do you know their quotas? Because I am not there so much so I cannot estimate them. Have never been banned by that platform, only by moderators :D
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)
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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.
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?
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@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
I actually ran into something similar recently.
What’s frustrating is not just the limits, but how invisible they are.
You don’t really know what triggered it until it’s too late.
A local tracker makes sense, but I think the real value would be showing patterns, not just counts.
For example:
- how fast you’re doing actions
- repeating similar actions in short time
- sudden spikes vs normal behavior
Feels like most bans come from patterns, not just volume.
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@bigcat_aroido Some are good suggestions, but it is very relative what is normal behaviour for each user because I think each has a different value according to his activity, platform history etc.
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.
@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
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@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