> “Back in the day, people used to sort of get around LinkedIn stuff by just dropping a link in the comments and saying, ‘Hey, check out the comments,’” Jung explains. “Problem is, LinkedIn actually parses if you're the first person to comment in your post, if you're the first person to add a link, even if you actually write, like, the website, but remove the .com and say ‘dot com,’ this algorithm is on to you. It's immediately going to take your post and downrank it.”

Is that really true? It sounds like the kind of superstition that shows up in opaque systems like LinkedIn and TikTok all the time. But maybe it IS true?

I'd love to see experimental confirmation of this, but it's hard to design transparent experiments like that without the risk of burning a valuable LinkedIn account.