🦄 Nika Kotláriková

LinkedIn blocked my account (again). This time for 72 hours. Did you miss me?
By the way:

I recommend this platform to apply another photo frame, "Constantly banned on LinkedIn", to their portfolio.

I think it would be just as popular as the frames "Open to work" and "Hiring".

What do you think?

Having 1k followers on LinkedIn is not a flex anymore. Things have changed. 👇

The platform jumped from 1.2B → 1.3B members in ~5 months.

More users = More content = More noise = Harder to differentiate

LinkedIn is "mainstreaming."

Content gets simplified.

From Professional & Educational.
To Cringe & Situational.

Also, the follower count is not the only important metric.

Engagement > Followers

Sponsors want to know about:
– Impressions
– Engagement
– Audience structure
– CTRs
– CPM

If you want to grow, earn attention before you teach.

You can still be educational, but in a different way.

Education still works, but packaged as infotainment with insights.

Everybody on the platform...

Normally, I’d say “Good luck.”

But in this case:

Observe, experiment, and adjust.

2026 will be crazy for us!

LinkedIn forced me into a week-long “celibacy” from the platform.
Here’s a breakdown of what actually happened.

LinkedIn started restricting my account due to huge activity (I comment a lot).

The restrictions lasted:
– 24 hours
– 48 hours
– 72 hours
– 168 hours (a full week)

⚠️ Technical support told me that this activity is detected by an automated system, and for individual accounts, they won’t manually remove restrictions, regardless of account size.

⚠️ LinkedIn can also limit certain features on your profile. E.g. a week ago, my “Featured” section disappeared for a moment. More people confirmed this.

If I continue at the same pace, future restrictions could last 2 weeks, a month, or even lead to permanent removal.

It escalates.

My account is now being monitored more sensitively for activity.

Here’s my plan for the next month to ease things up:
→ I’ll post a maximum of 2 – 4 times per week
→ I’ll write no more than 20 – 30 comments per day
→ I’ll be more careful with replying to DMs and sending/accepting connection requests

I really want to respond to everyone, so my replies will be spread out over several days.

This ban actually had 2 positive effects for me:
1. I spent less time on LinkedIn
2. It inspired me to code a preventative tool and learn programming

Wish me luck so I can stay on this platform as long as possible.

Really like it here because of you.

DISCLOSURE: This post contains a rant. Please prepare yourselves mentally:


Please. I ask you, no, I beg you wholeheartedly.

Don’t use those AI-generated slop comments.

The problem is that AI often:
– Fully or largely replicates existing text without adding anything new.
– Adds completely pointless things, like a two-line comment followed by “✨✨✨✨🚀”.
– Writes extremely long comments that no one has time to read.

When you don’t have anything to say, just stay quiet.
Sometimes, silence is gold. 😀

And when you do want to comment:
→ Say something constructive.
→ Be funny or speak from your own experience.
→ And yes, you can use AI, but ideally only to polish your grammar. I use it too.

Okay. Calming down my adrenaline and dopamine levels now.

Back to work. (And meaningful commenting.)

Me: 🤓 (trying to be educational on LinkedIn)
People: 🙄
Me: 🤪🤡 (changing the narrative)
People: 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Honestly, you could just tell me upfront you’re here for dumb content.

Would save us both a lot of time. 😂

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