What Reddit says · Collected July 2026
Search Reddit for LinkedIn automation and you find two truths sitting side by side. One: accounts get restricted and banned, tools get purged, and the community's warnings are blunt. Two: the best-documented outbound results on r/sales come from LinkedIn, run at small volumes with relationship-first rules. Both halves below, quoted verbatim and linked.
Full disclosure: written by Postelix, which sells a LinkedIn outbound autopilot. That is why every quote links to its source, and why the safety section below does not pretend the risk is zero.
From r/linkedin, 2025:
"this morning another automation tool got removed from LinkedIn… LinkedIn isn't here to F**K around lol… I can only imagine more tools will be removed."
r/linkedin, "LinkedIn is purging tools", 2025 · source thread"No, just slow down. You are literally a few clicks away from getting your account banned. There is no race"
r/linkedin, under "we noticed activity from your account that indicates you might be using an automation tool", 2025 · source thread"You need to chill on the connection requests, or they WILL ban your account. Less than 20 per day…"
Same thread · sourceRead the threads closely and the pattern behind the bans is consistent: bursts of invites, round-the-clock activity, and template messages at scale. LinkedIn does not detect "automation". It detects behavior no human has.
The most-referenced LinkedIn playbook on r/sales is titled "95% of the meetings I book are from LinkedIn, this is how I do it". Its rules:
"NEVER P[I]TCH ON THE FIRST CONNECTION REQUEST… it will come across as spamy and distasteful. LinkedIn is a lot about relationship building"
Thread OP, r/sales · source thread"they can be pretty aggressive when it comes to banning accounts if they suspect anything. I send out 20 requests per day, which usually gets me 5 meetings booked per week"
Comment, same thread · source"I'm a huge believer of relevancy over personalization"
Thread OP, same thread · sourceTwenty invites a day, five meetings a week. Sit with that ratio for a second. It is not a volume result. It is a precision result: right people, warm approach, no pitch on connect, messages that are relevant instead of merely "personalized". The community's safety advice and its success playbook turn out to be the same advice.
Honest answer: automating LinkedIn activity is against LinkedIn's terms of service, whichever vendor you pick, and no tool can make the risk zero. Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling harder than they should. What a tool can do is stay far inside the behavior that Reddit's burned users describe getting flagged: no bursts, no 3am activity, no template blasts, no pitch-on-connect.
That is how Postelix is built. Hard daily limits below the community's own safe line. Activity in human sessions inside your timezone, with natural gaps and a slow ramp for fresh accounts. A warm-up comment before any invite, an invite before any DM, and every message written from your voice and the buyer's actual context, so nothing reads like a template because nothing is one. And you hold the switches: each channel runs on Auto, Review (every action waits for your tap) or Off, instantly, from your phone.
The deeper safety mechanism is the strategy itself. A machine working 100 tracked accounts one buyer at a time simply has no reason to produce the volume patterns that get accounts flagged. Precision is not just the growth thesis. It is the safety posture.
Related reading: what Reddit thinks of AI SDRs and, if you are comparing vendors, Postelix vs Gojiberry.
The number that recurs across r/linkedin and r/sales threads is under 20 per day. Users warning about bans cite it, and notably, the thread author booking 5 meetings a week runs at exactly 20 a day. Higher volumes are where the restriction and ban stories start.
Yes. Automation is against LinkedIn's terms, tools get purged, and r/linkedin is full of restriction warnings. What the threads describe getting flagged is machine-like behavior: bursts of invites, activity at all hours, template messages at scale. Tools that stay inside slow, human, relevant behavior are the ones users report surviving with; no vendor, including us, can honestly promise zero risk.
The consensus playbook: around 20 invites a day, never pitch on the connection request, warm the relationship first, be relevant rather than token-personalized, and sound like a human. One documented r/sales practitioner books around 5 meetings a week that way. It is the exact motion Postelix automates: warm-up comment, invite, conversation in your voice, meeting on your calendar.
Under-20-a-day pacing, warm-up before outreach, no pitch on connect, your voice on every word, and meetings booked into your calendar. Keep it on Review until you trust it, then flip it to Auto.
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