Why is this possible on LinkedIn?

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I just became aware of a very weird situation that may happen to you as well on LinkedIn:

You may have comments — in your own posts — that you don’t see at all and you may not be aware of!

Is this normal? Anyone can leave some (nasty) comments and then simply block you, that’s all it takes.

In my case, I became aware yesterday night that I could see only two comments on a small post of mine. But another top info told me that I must see 4 comments in fact. And I was lucky, because if I had 10 or 20 comments, nobody stays to count comments and you may have no clue what’s there.

Long story short, my case was silly, because someone left something like “I’ll not pay for a Medium subscription just to read your blog. Blocked!” Most of my posts here start with a “Click here to read the post for free link” — and this also applied to that article of mine — but let’s go back to LinkedIn.

I had to create another dummy account and have a look at my own posts, imagine. At how total strangers see them! Only then I discovered the two other misplaced, mean and manipulative comments. All other people were able to see them, not me! Why?!

I had to come back and delete a whole thread of comments there, just because. But is this not dangerous? Just asking. Anyone can manipulate in fact anyone this way, and leave comments on your own posts you may not be aware of, at all…