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A LinkedIn user found themselves in digital detention after being flagged as a bot while diligently researching Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) profiles. The user’s account was temporarily suspended due to the rapid-fire review of profiles, triggering LinkedIn’s automated bot detection system. This incident highlights the increasingly sophisticated, and sometimes overzealous, nature of these systems and the potential for genuine human activity to be misinterpreted as automated behavior. The original discussion and account of the incident can be found on Reddit: [https://old.reddit.com/r/artificial/comments/1oqxixt/it_thinks_im_a_bot_i_dont_know_whether_to_be/]