February 25, 2024 · 2 min read

I’ve started an X account for my weekend science posts

Tom KirkmanIndependent Project Manager

So I set up a new account on X called Troo Science Fax @TrooScienceFax.

It will take a while before the X AI recognizes that I’m human and my posts and comments get seen by others.

Frustrating being a noob on another forum. I’ve written over 20,000 posts and comments just here on LinkedIn since I joined LinkedIn, I think it was in 2014.

But now I plan to start posting my weekend Science posts on X and then post a link to it here on LinkedIn.

I am very much frustrated that LinkedIn is surreptitiously reducing the stats on the number of reader views on my posts here, stealth editing and gradually reducing the number of views of my posts from months ago.

I’ve downloaded 4 spreadsheets of my LinkedIn stats over a period of a few months, and it is *consistent* in comparisons on each stat spreadsheet, my view count stats are slowly being *erased* by LinkedIn in a slow and gradual, but consistent, reduction. Pernicious stat reduction.

The reductions only occur in days which are more than a month old, apparently assuming I would not notice. Analyzing data trends is one of my skillsets.

This is a subtle form of shadowbanning, attempting to make me think my post view count is less than it is.

So, I plan to start gradually start shifting my posting to X, and then re-posting here to LinkedIn.

Meantime, I will need to grow an audience on X.

Troo Science Fax @TrooScienceFax is my X user name, if anyone wishes to connect.

FROM THE THREAD

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Tom KirkmanFeb 25, 2024
Cool, thanks guys. The X AI will eventually let me out of Noob Prison.
Tom KirkmanFeb 25, 2024
Yes. I've addressed this before here, but the response was mostly nonsensical. But I now have 4 spreadsheets with different numbers to prove it.

How can so many of my posts from many months ago keep getting consistently and gradually reduced in count? Data manipulation, pure and simple.

Reminds of the Climate Hockey Stuck BS chart, but in the opposite direction.
Tom KirkmanFeb 25, 2024
Ahmad (AJ) A. Perhaps try searching for "Troo Science Fax" with spaces between the words.

My "@" is @TrooScienceFax but my user name has spaces in between the words.
Tom Kirkmanreplying to D DFeb 25, 2024
good points. I do *Not* want AI to "help" me write posts. I much prefer to do my own thinking myself.
Tom Kirkmanreplying to Daniel TurnerFeb 25, 2024
I'm pretty open about what my views are, and have frequently posted screencaps of the stats about reader feedback about what my views are.
Tom Kirkmanreplying to Leen WeijersFeb 25, 2024
I'm not imagining it.

I've downloaded my LinkedIn stat spreadsheet 4 times in the last 2 months. Then compared the spreadsheet numbers for daily views on the 4 excel spreadsheets.

The viewcounts on many days from many months ago are steadily being reduced on each spreadsheet.
Tom KirkmanFeb 25, 2024
Update, for those of you asking how I know that LinkedIn is secretly *reducing* the stats of reader views, retroactively lowering the numbers, a screencap below. Clearly, I can't screenshot 1 years worth of data, so this is just a glimpse.

I've downloaded my stats from LinkedIn 4 times in the last 2 months, and compared the views per date.

Just in the last 2 months (Jan and Feb 2024) LinkedIn has retroactively reduced my reader impression by 8,736 for the last year. That may not sound like much, but using that data, it works out to about a reduction of 50,000 views a year.

The data is clearly corrupted, and I despise knowingly biased and manipulated data much in the same way that I despise Mann's infamous "hockey stick graph" of knowingly biased and manipulated data.

It makes me question the basic veracity of the stats which LinkedIn is reporting to me.

I signed up long ago for LinkedIn's "Creator" program, and I am frustrated with the pernicious statistical manipulation.

That's not even taking into account the censorship here.

Hence, my decision to start moving away from posting regularly on LinkedIn, and try to start posting regularly instead on X (Twitter) where I may be more appreciated instead of being shunted down.
Tom Kirkmanreplying to Patrick DevineFeb 25, 2024
I've taken that into account. I'm only comparing the data from the same date.

Look at the screencap again, and you will see the gradual decline of count for each day shown.

The total count reduction per day over the course of the last months is on the right side in red font.

P.S. this sure seems like *fraud* to me.
Tom KirkmanFeb 25, 2024
Ahmad (AJ) A. LinkedIn won't let me reply to your comment above, where you gave a link to where your post comments went from 27 to 10.
Tom KirkmanFeb 25, 2024
Thanks JJ Delgado🤙 . I'm still in the X noob prison, still invisible. Will see what happens later this week.
Tom Kirkmanreplying to Christopher SabulskyFeb 26, 2024
yes, I really miss Oilpro. It was unique, and a great repository of oil & gas information, before it got erased from the internet by a lawsuit by competing website Rigzone.

Rigzone could have just shut down Oilpro, but left the forum online for information purposes, rather than the Oilpro servers being permanently removed from the internet and all access wiped out.
Tom KirkmanFeb 26, 2024
Thanks Patti Squicciarini
Tom KirkmanFeb 27, 2024
Thanks James.

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