In my one of my first blog posts, I wrote about what a LinkedIn IDK is and why you should know. You have the ability to block people on Twitter and Facebook, and LinkedIn gives you a similar ability to block someone by disconnecting with someone, although in the case of LinkedIn you have to connect with them before you can block them (yes, I know, it sounds strange). But the policy on penalizing someone without either the sender or recipient knowing it, which is the case of replying to a LinkedIn Invitation with an “I Don’t Know” or IDK, …
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I received this question yesterday from an engineer who plans to start evangelizing LinkedIn to an engineering community who may not have the same view of Social Media like I do. As part of this person’s LinkedIn Objective, he wants to create his own brand of being the Pioneer of Connecting Engineers on LinkedIn. I think this is a great idea, as every professional should be on LinkedIn, and it brings up a good question as to how an open networking or LION tag can help in doing so. But what about the idea of a selective LinkedIn LION?
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On March 19, 2009, without prior notice (at least not to its free members), the entire navigation scheme for the LinkedIn Inbox was changed. If you are on LinkedIn, you will see how simplified the categories for the Inbox on the left-hand navigation bar are now: “Compose Message”, “Received”, “Sent”, and “Archived”. Before, there used to be a category for each type of communication that existed, like “Invitations”, “Group Messages”, etc. So is this a change for the better? And where do I find all of my old categorized mail?
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If someone has sent you an “I Don’t Know” (IDK) response to your LinkedIn Invitation, it is easy to find out who did it and contact them to try to resolve it through peaceful means so as to deal with the LinkedIn IDK threshold. The more IDKs that you receive, the closer to the magical IDK threshold of 5 that will place new limitations on your LinkedIn account.
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As I mentioned in my “What is a LinkedIn IDK – I Don’t Know This Person?” post, once you reach the LinkedIn IDK threshold of 5 IDKs, your account will be restricted in that you will need to enter an E-Mail address each time you try adding new people to your network. If you are a LinkedIn LION actively using invites to build up your network by adding people, this IDK restriction is obviously a major inconvenience. However, even with this restriction I was able to once again start adding new people to my network by following the rules that …
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When you invite someone or receive an invite, the recepient has a choice of accepting the invite, saying they don’t know the invite, reporting spam, or simply archiving the invite without performing any action. If the invite is accepted, the two of you become immediately connected. If the invite is archived, you can always accept the invitation at a later date. If you report spam, well, I am sure that the invitee will not be permitted to use LinkedIn for long.
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