So I’ve been noticing this for a while but as I had 3 identical posts written in first person from 3 different people appear on my feed its triggered my curiosity.
“how stressful QA can be”
As an example stick that into the search bar in linkedin, I wonder if you will get the same or similar results as I, multiple posts with the same content.
I’m posting here as I’m wondering what if any are the knock on effects for the community.
I spent time replying to the first one I came across hoping to share my experience for perhaps the benefit of others, now I wonder if I was feeding some sort of marketing or other motivation from the posters.
So a couple of questions.
Are you seeing this more and more?
What do you think the motivations are?
Are they bots?
Any positive sides for testers to be doing things? Spreading a message, reaching a broader group perhaps.
On a tangent, interesting chance to test the search function, its not an exact match and maybe only some lines are indexed. However if you are not comfortable contributing to cloned posts and you suspect one the search does seem the best way to quickly avoid these and getting sucked into discussions where the originator is not involved, referenced or given credit for.
To be honest, I don’t pay so much attention to that kind of content and other contents that wants to engage (bait) the people. Most of them are useless conversations. I’m tired of them.
«This is a list of Web sites to find 100% remote jobs». «Errors that probably you’re doing when developing “X” or “Y”». «Hidden tricks that you don’t know about ChatGPT»… The list is endless.
They’re not genuine conversations. They’re very superficial. They don’t even check if what they’re sharing is completely true. They just want followers, reactions and probably money (if the monetise their profile, pages or groups).
Unfortunately LinkedIn started to become like Twitter, Bluesky, Facebook or Instagram. There’s no professionalism around the network.
Your likely right and I should just clear out anything that encourages these to show up on my feed.
Its clearly triggered me a bit though, the harm it can do to newcomers, the propagation of poorly thought through messages, the large number of followers that some posts have.
AI learning from the race to the bottom risk due to the amount of it.
Conveying the ideas of good testing can be an upstream battle at times and then more junk gets thrown in the river.
I’ll get the rant out my system and take on some of the good feedback here.
Scroll LinkedIn for an hour, and we will find the same post by different people, and all these people have thousands of followers and have the header Content Creator in their profile.
One of the obvious reason is that if something is online it is for views and that’s where copy paste comes in to picture, people keep looking for other’s content that has engagement and hence post the same with/ without minor change with the hope of getting same or more than that amount of engagement and the irony is that they don’t even credit the original author so it is bit tough to find the real author in such posts.
It’s better not to post rather than posting others’ contents without crediting them because that’s not copying, that’s actually stealing, and they are not bots… they are human beings who are just desperate for engagement for content on their profile.
