Comments on: LinkedIn Answers: Author Wants to Know Your Thoughts on Cybercrime and How to Stop It http://blog.linkedin.com/2008/04/01/linkedin-answer-4/ The corporate blog of LinkedIn, the world's largest professional networking site. Sat, 12 Dec 2009 02:37:13 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Rob Russell http://blog.linkedin.com/2008/04/01/linkedin-answer-4/#comment-1578 Rob Russell Wed, 02 Apr 2008 01:56:11 +0000 http://wptheme.site/?p=135#comment-1578 Okay, we get it. Your PR team can pull in celebrities to ask questions and run away. But frankly, this is getting absurd and repetitive. Jon Swartz already knows the answer to his question -- he wrote the book! If he was taking LinkedIn Answers seriously, he would have asked questions during the course of his research. But he didn't. And you're patronizing us with these wringer questions where we know darned well that they're not going to be reading all the answers. What is this, LinkedIn Rhetorical Questions? Show me the questions *answered* by Gates or Obama. Show me a published book that cites LinkedIn Answers as a reference from the research. Those kinds of accomplishments are worthy of note, and cause for celebration. I'd love to hear about them. This grandstanding is insulting to the community, dismissive to the real potential of the product, and clutter on the LinkedIn Blog. Perhaps you're confusing LinkedIn Answers with a normal internet discussion forum? You seem to be, and that will only serve to dilute your brand. Okay, we get it. Your PR team can pull in celebrities to ask questions and run away. But frankly, this is getting absurd and repetitive.

Jon Swartz already knows the answer to his question — he wrote the book! If he was taking LinkedIn Answers seriously, he would have asked questions during the course of his research. But he didn’t.

And you’re patronizing us with these wringer questions where we know darned well that they’re not going to be reading all the answers. What is this, LinkedIn Rhetorical Questions?

Show me the questions *answered* by Gates or Obama. Show me a published book that cites LinkedIn Answers as a reference from the research. Those kinds of accomplishments are worthy of note, and cause for celebration. I’d love to hear about them.

This grandstanding is insulting to the community, dismissive to the real potential of the product, and clutter on the LinkedIn Blog.

Perhaps you’re confusing LinkedIn Answers with a normal internet discussion forum? You seem to be, and that will only serve to dilute your brand.

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