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Do you accept or reject requests from strangers?
I get the occasional request from a recruiter, which I'll sometimes accept if I'm in the market for a new job. I also get requests from people I've never met, which to me is weird, but could be an opportunity for a new job as well I guess?
Edit:
Conversely - do you send out requests to people you don't know?
modified 5-Feb-21 9:48am.
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I have lots of fun with those: I start holding them to a 1 hour turnaround (or so) ... then delete / block them if they don't abide by "my rules".
Some people "invite" everybody under the sun. Some people just love wasting your time. Or treat you like a serf. YMMV.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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I think I need to find you on LinkedIn  
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I get requests from recruiters at least twice week. In the old days I was happy to accept them as I thought they were being friendly - and could, maybe, be useful getting a new post. However, I am in the position of being very happy where I am with no intention of moving anywhere - so now my attitude is less charitable.
Is this selfish? Perhaps... Whatever, this is the real world of dog eat dog - although my puppy prefers ice-cream! 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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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. 
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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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? 
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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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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.
"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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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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