HN on Linkedin

Am I the only one that doesn't see the point in LinkedIn groups besides the ability to have more direct contacts?

OT question for entrepreneurial LinkedIn experts reading this thread: what would you do with 9 InMail grants to advance your project or startup?<p>Regarding the group, I'd love to join it but I don't have 20 karma points on HN.

I see the point of LinkedIn groups, but it feels like the groups are starting to get polluted. It almost feels like Facebook. I really enjoy Hacker News and see why I would want to be part of that group on LinkedIn.<p>But I don't need another badge, another forum for questions, and another list.<p>Which is a shame because I think the a Hacker News LinkedIn group makes sense.

Is this one (Y Combinator News Group, 234 ppl) dead? <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&#38;gid=3426&#38;trk=anet_ug_hm" rel="nofollow">http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&#38;gid=3426&#38;trk=an...</a>

I'd gladly help you make that little logo/icon/badge more attractive, just for the satisfaction of knowing one less bad one is showing up in HN readers' profiles.

Good idea. It's just too bad that for the general populace, "Hacker" is a bad term, and this logo on people's pages would be a turn-off for those who aren't somewhat tech-savvy. People think hacker = cracker.

I can't remember if I ever used LinkedIn for anything useful, but why not.