Endorsements

[davidn]

Why is that even in the list of things you can choose to endorse people for?!

I responded by endorsing him for Workplace Violence. We've been at this since the days where you couldn't actually refuse or delete endorsements, where I got some obscure 1970s telephony protocol and he got German Peerage Law in return.

Comments

[tamakun.livejournal.com]

I can't tell if you guys are joking about with LinkedIn or not. Theoretically this doesn't actually mean what I think it means, right?

[xaq.livejournal.com]

...Was "to Hell with you, Dean" the appropriate reaction to have to this? Because that's the reaction I had.

[davidn]

That depends! What do you think it means?

[davidn]

Don't worry, I'll give him back some qualifications in fraud and violent crime.

[tamakun.livejournal.com]

It looks like he finances terrorists. That can't be good-looking on the LinkedIn site.

[davidn]

Okay, here's the history of what's happening on LinkedIn!

You can 'endorse' people for certain skills, and it's intended to be a vote of confidence - a verification that this person is good at something. Usually, you'd do this to give someone you know points for working with AJAX or PHP or Java or something. However, in its early days, we discovered that there were a variety of weird and wonderful things in the list that you could endorse people for, and have been endorsing each other back and forth for them occasionally ever since. (It was a lot more awkward in the days before LinkedIn realized that you should be able to actually refuse/delete endorsements from your page.)

[tamakun.livejournal.com]

Ahh, gotcha, so you ARE gaming the system. :D