When the Left Hand Ignores the Right Hand: The Pitfalls of a Professional Social Networking Platform

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The Ethical Failure of Professional Social Media

In the world of professional social media, ethics and transparency should be the fundamental pillars of the user experience.

Unfortunately, some platforms seem to favour opaque, deceptive, and frustrating practices turning their own subscribers into mere products while continuing to collect payments, even when access is restricted.

Customer Service: A Total Disconnect

When encountering an issue on this platform, one would expect efficient and personalized support.

However, the reality is quite different:

• Automated and irrelevant responses: Before even reviewing the nature of the problem or the member’s professional background, the platform responds with generic messages that raise more questions than they resolve.
  

• A support system that feels like it's run by outdated AI: The responses are so standardized and impersonal that one wonders if there’s a real human behind the screen.
  

  

• Endless email exchanges with no real understanding: Every attempt to clarify the issue is ignored or met with generic replies, highlighting a complete lack of genuine assistance.
  

A Harmful Strategy for Managing Restrictions

Many members report having their accounts suddenly restricted without any clear explanation.

Here are the platform’s questionable tactics:

• A complete lack of transparency: No prior warning, no explicit reason.
  

• Just a vague message that leaves users in the dark about why access was restricted.
  

• A deceptive “verification” process: The platform demands authentication through other digital accounts, reinforcing restrictions instead of resolving them.
  

  • Is this a simple security check, or a ploy to increase personal data collection?
    

• An endless CAPTCHA loop: Even after completing all required verifications, users find themselves trapped in an infinite series of security checks, effectively locking them out of their accounts.
  

  

• An unreasonable request for sensitive documents: Under the guise of identity verification, the platform pushes its control obsession to the extreme, demanding sensitive documents like a driver’s license or passport.
  

  • This intrusive approach raises serious concerns about data privacy and user rights.

    

A Deliberate Strategy to Stall and Weaken the User

When facing complaints, the platform employs tactics to extend delays and discourage subscribers:

• Repetitive and condescending responses: Instead of providing concrete solutions, the platform repeatedly sends basic tutorials as if treating members like fools.
  

• An administrative ping-pong game: Each new contact attempt leads to another department, another "step," or a new prewritten message, indefinitely postponing issue resolution.
  

  

• Continued charges despite account restrictions: Even when users cannot access their accounts, their payments continue as if nothing happened.
  

  • A blatant example of unethical business practices.
    

• A completely disconnected billing department: While my account was restricted, the billing system continued charging me, completely unaware of my shadowban.
  

  • This is a clear case of fraud and internal miscommunication!
    

A Hidden Shadowban Practice

One of the platform’s most insidious tactics is its tendency to shadowban users.

Instead of issuing a clear ban, it quietly prevents them from accessing their profiles or posting content.

This lack of honest communication leaves users with no recourse or way to resolve the issue.

A Failing Ethical Standard, a Questionable Business Model

This type of behavior raises a fundamental question: can a professional platform afford to treat its own subscribers this way?

• Users are both the product and the customers: A social platform thrives on its members' activity.

  • Treating them as disposable numbers undermines its very purpose.
    

• Practices that border on abuse of power:

  • Withholding information, unjustified shadowbans, and continued subscription charges are tactics that verge on outright fraud.
    

    

• An urgent need for accountability:

  • Professional social networks must adopt transparent and fair practices, or risk losing their user base’s trust.
    

Conclusion: A Call to Regulate These Practices

In a world where digital tools have become essential, it is crucial to expose these practices and demand proper customer service.

Subscribers, who finance these platforms with their payments, deserve ethical management and respect for their access rights.

These deceptive practices must be called out, and users must remain vigilant against such abuses.

Because ultimately, a platform that betrays its users’ trust is only setting itself up for its own downfall.

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