How sad. I just noticed I was penalized in LinkedIn!

Every time I try to add a new contact, I get this:

Please note: You are now required to enter an email address to send invitations from this page because several recipients of your invitations indicated they don’t know you. This safeguard is in place to prevent users from receiving unwanted invitations from people they don’t know. Customer Service can remove the restriction at anytime once you indicate that you understand this policy.

LinkedIn Penalty

It happens to be that just the other day, I added like a 100+ connections. I suspect it has to do with that. Who rejects connections? I guess people do... In any event, I will now only request connections from those that I know really know me. If you don't know me, then I won't request your LinkedIn connection - but I will accept your invite, so don't worry.

So if you still want to connect with me, you can do so via this link.

I put my appeal in with LinkedIn, wonder how long it will take to remove my penalty. :)