Completely agree, the confusing bit then is the call to action, instead of "Help me educate LinkedIn" its "I'm deleting my account."
Does the author want to fix LinkedIn? Do they want a different service (or the same service done differently?) or a nearly the same service? It is easy to be dismissive of this form of rant, and sometimes that is actually the best response. But if there is something to learn here[1] that would be good too.
I suspect I'm overthinking it and the author was just venting.
[1] I get the 'here is another exemplar of stupid design' thought as well.
He says pretty explicitly why he deleted his account:
> They should know better than to put their marketing plans ahead of their users' security. They're not going to learn about security until it costs them users. So, scratch one user.
I think this is a reasonable justification, and I imagine the point was to get others to do the same.
I've given up on LinkedIn. They had a high-profile breach less than a year ago and they're still doing insecure things like this. Either they don't know or they don't care. So I'm setting the permanent bozo bit on their company.
Do I expect this to accomplish much? Not really. But I'm no longer part of the problem.
Does the author want to fix LinkedIn? Do they want a different service (or the same service done differently?) or a nearly the same service? It is easy to be dismissive of this form of rant, and sometimes that is actually the best response. But if there is something to learn here[1] that would be good too.
I suspect I'm overthinking it and the author was just venting.
[1] I get the 'here is another exemplar of stupid design' thought as well.