Would I? No, but I also have never once looked at someone's LinkedIn when in the hiring process. I used to carefully curate who I connected with so that when looking at my connections, you could see it was a list of respected people in their fields, but I had barely over 100. Several recruiters told me point blank that doesn't matter at all. So I stopped bothering to care about my LI profile and connections, and suddenly had a LOT more activity with recruiters when I added more connections. Seemed quantity is truly valued over quality there.
> Saying this cause connections can be fakely increased so it's a dumb metric that shows pretty much nothing.
Yes, that was my point.
> Would think it's more useful seeing how that person expresses themselves or which posts shares rather than how many people has accepted into their "network".
You would think so, yes, but it's not how things work in the end.