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Comment by paulcrecruiter | Hacker News Reader

It's actually even more funny than this: it's beautiful women trying to contact nerdy men and getting ghosted by them :)

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lol, https://www.linkedin.com/in/george-hotz-b3866476/ - George Hotz of comma.ai uses LinkedIn for dating ;)

I thought this was a joke, but then he puts it right in his profile:

> PLEASE READ PROFILE. While some people use LinkedIn for "networking" and advertising their "personal brand," I use this site exclusively as a dating platform. If you are intelligent, attractive, female, in or visiting San Diego, and perhaps a bit out of the norm, I might be interested. Send me a message and invite me out for a drink! (and please make it clear you are asking me on a date) All non-dating related messages will be ignored.

But at the same time seems like it is a failed platform for him too:

> UPDATE. LinkedIn is too full of faux career climbers and not enough dating opportunity. Follow me on Instagram @georgehotz

One of the fun things about LinkedIn is figuring ways to filter the auto recruiter messages and his is pretty great tbh.

I've been using »FirstName LastName« in my profile and when I get emails addressed to »FirstName I know they're from a machine

i put a period after my first name, same idea

That explains why they were asking for Putman scores when hiring engineers around the time they started.

haha, guess LinkedIn didn't help him with dating.

Besides the joke, I think it can help you sympathize with women in that situation as well, and maybe improve your dating :) You can start to see why lots of attention still feel shollow.

Yeah ok, people are sending me jobs... do they even know what I do? This looks automated, they probably send a million?

For me, it’s messages like “How’s it going at City and County of San Francisco?”

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