Am I obligated to accept a LinkedIn recommendation?

Question

I found out after accepting her connection recently that she's done some crazy stuff in recent weeks. Is it bad form to ignore the recommendation? I didn't ask for it.

Thanks.

Answer 1

You only want to approve and display a recommendation that helps you build your personal platform.

So - you accepted a connection from someone you know and trust, right?

If that person has behaved oddly recently, you'd probably want to have a conversation with them about it, yes?

Go out to lunch with them and see what's going on...

Now let's suppose for a moment that you connected to someone you don't know - how then can they give you a valid recommendation?  If you found a profile with generic recommendations from apparent strangers, what would you think of that individual?  Is that what you want people thinking about you?

More on recommendations in some of the article here:

http://www.linkedinpersonaltrainer.com/

steve