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This happens to me all the time.
Answer is it depends. If they are in a field I am curious about or something along that line. Sure I will accept their request. I still feel weird about it though.
If they are a recruiter and I am looking. Sure. In my current position though. I am not looking and I am called a 'manager' (ugh) so I get recruiters trying to get someone placed at my company all the time. This gets to be annoying sooooo, I don't accept those anymore at all. Just a universal block on them. Perhaps if I am ever looking again. Perhaps.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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I rarely get new request.
Most of the time I accept them because they are related to my job.
I reject all recruiters (or stall them out), and I reject really unrelated requests
I'd rather be phishing!
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I don't have LinkedIn.
And if I could go back in time I would have not had Facebook.
M.D.V. 
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Absolutely not. Even people I do know get "edited out" periodically - though some old friends are kept just as a way to contact should I ever need to. To me the whole point of LinkedIn is that it's about people who are linked! If I don't know them, and they don't know me, I'm hardly going to "recommend" them. What really really winds me up is when people on LinkedIn (or some other sites like PeoplePerHour) give an "endorsement" and expect one in return. Makes the whole thing utterly pointless.
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I routinely hand out 1-star ratings to any and all online shops asking me to give them a 5.
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I am not Linked In. I like my current job so much I don't want to be tempted by "greener pastures."
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Retired - I took great pleasure in deleting my account.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Jacquers wrote: Do you accept or reject requests from strangers?
Not even active on this LinkedIn. People calling me during work-hours, when I'm paid to work instead of answering phones for some "opportunity"?
Jacquers wrote: Conversely - do you send out requests to people you don't know?
Yes, but never via LinkedIn. It's just that they have to prove who they are, and why they interested. And not during working hours, my boss doesn't pay me to talk to recruiters. It would be theft if I did.
Never, under working time, did I talk to a recruiter. Ever. Only answering my phone for emergencies; and if not someone dying, it is not an emergency.
Jacquers wrote: I get the occasional request from a recruiter, which I'll sometimes accept if I'm in the market for a new job
Last I got was someone who wanted my SSN and copy of my passport. Asked here if legit.
And struck out.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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duchy discusses maze barrier (8)
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the duchy of CORNWALL
ma(i)ze - corn
barrier - wall
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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 You're up on Monday.
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@GregUtas
Where's the CCC? 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I have no idea. I went to CCCC.
INTP
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence." - Edsger Dijkstra
"I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks. " - Daniel Boone
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Could have been worse - might have been CCCP.
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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That version is deprecated.
Crude hardware and buggy software. But quite powerful when it functioned.
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I think it's just been rebranded as Putania 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I believe Italians might read that slightly different. 
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My Italian is poor. Very poor. I can order coffee and beer, but after that "Charades" are heavily involved!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Mine as well, but you can't spend time with exchange students without their more colourful expressions sticking in your memory.
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A lot of times I would have just liked to have handed them one of my personal libraries to show that I actually know what I am doing. I do understand the problem with that, they actually cannot know if you were the one who wrote it. Although, if they seen it and were willing to talk about it, they would know instantly who the author was.
About 20 years ago I spent some time fixing and then playing around with a program that I had found on a bulletin board. It was a lot of fun, but I never would have claimed to have created the original.
A couple of weeks latter, a young man comes in for a job interview and he decides it would be a good idea to show us a program he had written. In less than 30 seconds I got up and fired up the same program on my machine. I think the actual code had originally been written before he was born (I could be wrong). Suffice it to say, he did not get the job.
INTP
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence." - Edsger Dijkstra
"I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks. " - Daniel Boone
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As a Dutch saying goes: Quote: Beter goed gejat dan slecht bedacht
(Better stolen than badly conceived)
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I can't remember a situation in person like the one you are describing.
But I was fooled once the other way around.
I was a team member in a project for a very difficult customer. During the time at their facilities short before the acceptance meeting, one of them came to my place and did some things in the machine triggering a blockade.
I needed to debug online to find out what the problem was and he started "this is not acceptable", "there must be always a way to go out or at least do a reset in the SCADA GUI" and "blah blah blah"...
I knew it was not my error (we had to build up from a basis that they gave us), but theoretically we were hired to deliver a running line so I had a solution a couple of hours later. He tried to repeat the blockade but he couldn't and went away...
A couple of days later I randomly found out that the problem of the blockade had happened to another worker of theirs during the installation of a line in another country. So he triggered it in my station and when I fixed it, he set my solution in a patch that got distributed worldwide.
My boss tried to get some money out of that, but he couldn't.
What pissed the ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) out of me is that I confronted that [censored] and he didn't even apologize or thanked me.
But... I got the respect of all other workers in the customer's automation department. And two of them even came to me to thank me for the patch and to apologize for what that bugger did to me and told that the guy was pretty hated by almost everyone that had the bad luck to work with him.
Quote: Have you ever seen someone claim other peoples code?
But this? Yes, at least once a week or several times per month...
if you knew how many plagiarists try it here in the site and get blocked in the S&A Watch[^]...
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Ah! The old still the credit for someone elses work ploy. I've ran into that I few times. My reaction, whether it happened to me or one of my colleges, was to go over their head an tell them who actually solved the issue. The worst they could do is fire me, and that is something I never worried about. If they did that, then it would not be a company I wanted to work for anyway.
INTP
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence." - Edsger Dijkstra
"I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks. " - Daniel Boone
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Neither do I fear to get fired.
And they actually did know who did the patch.
I was tempted to say "goodbye guys, I go home" but I didn't want to abandon the rest of the team just like that.
In projects were I was alone, I had more liberty for such acts.
I did once walked out from a facility because a mid-low manager was pissing me off, but they called me to please come back before I reached the car.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Check out the regular reports of plagiarism in the Spam & Abuse forum.
I once had it the other way round - I posted a solution on StackOverflow based on a solution I had previously posted in response to a similar question here. Someone then posted another solution on the SO thread, copying my original solution from here, and accusing me of plagiarising my answer from myself. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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