LinkedIn recently announced changes to its Professional Community Policies, meaning you'll know what's on the table and what's not in your various LinkedIn communications.

The updated policies are meant to help people have more insight into certain elements of in-app engagement-perhaps because people, especially women, get tired of LinkedIn being used as a place for "too-zealous" users to want to hook up with someone because they like their profile picture.

That's not the only reason, however, but definitely reports of harassment through LinkedIn's InMail have been increasing.

As LinkedIn puts it :

One of the new policies we're releasing is a package of more detailed resources that may be able to better help our members understand our policies and how we apply them-practical examples of prohibited content and how we work to enforce account restrictions. Indeed, harassment, hate speech, and many forms of abusive content have never been allowed on LinkedIn-but we've never been clear about what types of comments and behaviors are against our Professional Community Policies.

In this new format, LinkedIn's policy overview has specific sections on things that are not allowed in the app and links you can click to find out more.
Follow the links and you'll be taken to the corresponding LinkedIn Help article on the topic with a section of even more specific explainers on what's not allowed in the app.
More directly, it's about being even more transparent about what you can't do in the application, and with continued growth in engagement across LinkedIn, it logically follows that even greater interaction on the site is going to run afoul of that prohibition.

And again-as discussed-women are disproportionately targeted by that activity.

A report last year by CTV Canada revealed that many of its female LinkedIn users regularly receive inappropriate messages from men, who'll often try to contact women in order to inform them that they are attractive. Fast Company reported  that posts from female users are often attacked with 'derision, marginalization and even outright hate', despite LinkedIn not really being more anonymous than other platforms, while many other women have reported the same advances or attacks from app users.

LinkedIn have just issued a very specific policy against 'sexual innuendos and unwanted advances', but which now also includes many more examples about what would not be accepted.
But the truth that this even is a requirement is a little unnerving - and indeed, this really does seem to be the focus of this new update, offering greater explanation on what cannot be done in the app, which in reality does encompass somewhat general workplace etiquette and ethics.
It would seem a priori and is indeed intuitively obvious that all the users should be able to communicate professionally, but, of course, as with any popular group of users, there are always a few that would try to stretch the rules and break them, especially if those rules are not clearly defined.

Precisely what LinkedIn is trying to clarify here is hopefully clear enough with new formats like this to force people using the app not to misunderstand what they may or may not do within it.