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Dear LinkedIn Customer Service

As of this morning my account got restricted. It happened as I was unaware of how sensible LinkedIn Algorithms are.
I didn't mean to be too "Active" as I was aware I was not using Business Premium ๐. I was only trying to locate some profiles from my 1ยฐ Degree connections in a very specific field for the Chilean Market.
So conscious I was that I spread the work in at least 3 days for a total of 31 Telecom Profiles. I did run about 10+ searches. I have no idea ๐ก if my accumulated navigation for the month has affected me. I was on Free Premium ๐ Business until December 11. I didn't renew because of Christmas ๐คถ, but my plan is to be on Premium ๐ when doing some specific research, in order to be out of trouble.
My second mistake was probably sending those 31 first degree connections the link of the Post together with a personal note asking for referrals candidates rather than hastaging them, but I did so to protect their privacy as I was only asking for referred candidates. My learned lesson for the future to use free or paid job posts rather than sending posts via LinkedIn Messaging.
Regarding previous restrictions I no longer pitch services nor even comment in posts of people I don't know. I did stop ๐ being content provider mode and never again activated Services Provider Mode. I have never ever used automated tools except the old ๐ง Rapportive years back ago.. Some times I used copy and paste text which now I am seeing it could have trigger algorithm . But that's all.
Still, I am in problems again. Please let me know if there is any other thing I need to take into account in order to avoid running restrictions.
Hope you can lift the restriction on my account. Here I declare to abide by the old and new policy guidelines stablished . I really want to have my account on good standing and clear solid ground.
Regards #JustinoMora
LinkedIn member since 2007
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At the end, I was liberated. Just spend 48 hours on LinkedIn Jail thanks to Customer Service being very understanding of all this mess cause by people who connected with you as 1ยฐ degree pretending to be your connection or follower just to end up throwing sh!#&$t on you :๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ
Lesson learned.