😵‍💫 Spamming with Golden Kitty Award on LinkedIn is NOT ok...

11mo ago

18 replies

I love the Product Hunt community, it's one of the best places to get help and connect. However, my LinkedIn is full of people I have never met, chatted with, and never checked/upvoted their products, who ask me to support their Golden Kitty Award or PH launch. It's not ok. Sending ChatGPT-generated messages with zero customization, zero connection with people and zero effort does NOT work. It is simply spam 🛑 We, as a community, can be much better and Product Hunt is not the place for spamming... I support many launches, help with feedback, and love chatting with makers when it's a real human connection... In most cases, it feels like I'm just bombarded with similar cold DMs on Linkedin from bots 🤖 Doe anyone else have this problem?

Replies

Andrian Valeanu @andrianv

Designmodo

UP! Where can I share screenshots? :) My LinkedIn is now full of people asking for upvotes.

Jan 19

Andrian Valeanu @andrianv

Designmodo

Let me share and collect here the most aggressive upvote requesters at the moment: LeadDelta 3.0 Kombai

Jan 19

Lisa Dziuba @lisadziuba

Don’t Panic by Lemon.io

@andrianv Oh, so we can have Golder Kitty Anti-Award 😂

Jan 19

André J @sentry_co

Dont worry, next year, the bots will have clever customisation in every message you receive, much better 😅 And which golden kitty are you supporting this year btw? what's your favourite ?

Jan 19

Lisa Dziuba @lisadziuba

Don’t Panic by Lemon.io

@sentry_co I loved Framer AI and I added it, ChatGPT obviously :)

Jan 19

Fabian Maume @fabian_maume

Warmup Inbox

Yep. Same problem.

Jan 19

Maksym Astakhov @maverick91

ASObot

The same, 300+ connects in the last 3 days Until you have a rating like voting it is unavoidable such a technique.

Jan 19

Lisa Dziuba @lisadziuba

Don’t Panic by Lemon.io

@maverick91 this was not a thing in 2015-2022, really i was not getting those LinkedIn spamming

Jan 19

Fabian Maume @fabian_maume

Warmup Inbox

@lisadziuba Product hunt audience grew considerably this year. Some if the new commers might not know the etiquette.

Jan 22

Rodrigo Leles @rodrigo_leles1

Sintonico

Launched @sintonico yesterday and I never received so many messages from random people asking to magically promote and get me hundreds of upvotes... 🤨

Jan 19

Abdul Wahab @heyabdulwahab

Hahah, happening same with me too.

Jan 19

Dima Boychuk @dima_boychuk

Wois: World of Inspirational Speakers

And one day, someone will launch on ProductHunt product called ProductAntiSpamHunt. 😀

Jan 22