Microsoft Competitions, Addictions, and Popularity Contests Are Not Going to Help Perl, They'll Waste Everybody's Time and Give Microsoft More Control Over Its Competition
Microsoft's LinkedIn is massively overrated (but it brainwashes 'its own', giving them a false sense of empowerment and advantage). It's full of scammers disguised as "job agents" (a friend of mine got scammed by one; he lost all his life's savings) and people who wrongly assume that without such a Microsoft account or 'belonging' they won't find a job; it's just a form of FOMO, based on misconceptions and misleading labeled like "got this job via LinkedIn" (usually a lie, a false attribution).
But this post isn't about the lies told by Microsoft and its marketing channels, utter lies told about LinkedIn.
It's about Perl, having already let GitHub (Microsoft) leverage greater control over its code and communications, promoting time-wasting manipulation instead of code:
Too much promotional language. Gabor and the others on the Perl team deepen their subjugation under Microsoft, a Perl developer has noted. "It's too bad about the Perl team's priorities, they are voluntarily getting squished by Microsoft..."
Microsoft does not like Perl. Microsoft has long run a campaign of disinformation about Perl - to the point everyone simply assumed that Perl was way too hard, permanently "old" (stable), and should thus be avoided if not ridiculed.
This Microsoft-critical site is run by a lot of Perl; Microsoft has another reason to hate Perl and try to crush it. █