Surely that's the point of how endorsements should work? Do you know that this person is skilled in Fooing Bars? Then endorse them. Otherwise, don't.
If you don't know whether the site or the user added the skill, it suggests you don't know enough to endorse them for that particular skill.
> It's like the whole damn site was build to fool people around and to promote lying.
Agreed. I'm sure the whole endorsements system at least was built to generate spam and click-throughs. Fortunately, almost everyone recognises it for what it really is - a pointless click-fest with no real value in deciding which skills someone has.
> Surely that's the point of how endorsements should work? Do you know that this person is skilled in Fooing Bars? Then endorse them. Otherwise, don't.
It is easy to say that, yet the site is designed in such a way (and one has to assume this is purposefully so) that it is very easy to endorse people for random things by way of the 4-person grid in which one of the options is "endorse all".
Based on my own experience with being endorsed for random things, it seems to be pretty common for people to just keep banging that button to 'help' out their friends with a bent towards just giving them the benefit of the doubt that they must know whatever the topic is if linkedin is suggesting they do in the first place (and it is tangentially related to their industry).
It has the promise of being a "competences graph", where you being endorsed for "foo" is worth more if those endorsing you for it themselves are endorsed for "foo", on the premise that it "takes one to know one". This would then be useful metadata that qualifies the rather dimension-less "connection".
But yeah, the execution is so horrid that it reeks of malice.
Surely that's the point of how endorsements should work? Do you know that this person is skilled in Fooing Bars? Then endorse them. Otherwise, don't.
If you don't know whether the site or the user added the skill, it suggests you don't know enough to endorse them for that particular skill.
> It's like the whole damn site was build to fool people around and to promote lying.
Agreed. I'm sure the whole endorsements system at least was built to generate spam and click-throughs. Fortunately, almost everyone recognises it for what it really is - a pointless click-fest with no real value in deciding which skills someone has.