The short answer
Review the actual written recommendation before accepting it. Use the pending recommendation controls for acceptance, revision or dismissal; use the separate Received display control to hide an accepted item. Dismissal is not a reversible display switch, and hiding your Given copy does not control someone else’s profile.
What you’ll take away
- Check factual scope and permission before accepting praise.
- Keep pending, accepted and hidden as separate states.
- A written testimonial is neither an endorsement count nor audited customer evidence.
Read the claim, relationship and intended use
A recommendation can contain a mistaken role, a confidential project or a stronger outcome than the author observed. Read the whole text and identify what you can substantiate. Acceptance should not turn an unsupported statement into your own public evidence. Keep a needed correction precise rather than replacing the author’s voice with promotional wording.
If you want to quote a passage in a recap, handle that reuse separately. A display setting on a professional profile does not settle permission for a graphic, a named customer case or a translated quotation. Preserve the exact original and do not invent consent from a connection, reaction or pending recommendation.
Choose the pending recommendation action
LinkedIn’s help opens the recommendation message and Review Recommendation on desktop; mobile uses pending recommendations on the profile. Add to profile accepts it; the item menu offers Ask for revision or Dismiss. Read the actual choice before selecting it. A revision request is a message action, not a local draft correction.
The help warns that a dismissed recommendation cannot be retrieved and that acceptance sends a network update. If your goal is temporary review, leave it pending instead of dismissing it as a bookmark. Do not accept merely to test a screenshot or send a revision request without intending the contact.
Check the accepted item’s own display control
For an accepted item, the documented path is profile, Recommendations, Edit, Received and its toggle. Reopen the relevant item after an intended change. Hiding a Given recommendation on your own profile does not change its display on the recipient’s profile. Record which side you actually checked.
Do not use the absence of a section in a logged-out preview as proof of deletion. Public and signed-in displays differ. If the need is to correct the author’s claim, hiding alone leaves that claim unchanged. Keep content correction, your profile display and any already distributed quotation as separate work.
Resolve three recommendation decisions
R1 — Constructed role error: “Led the entire launch” describes a member who reviewed one onboarding step. Decision: keep the item pending and draft the exact correction “Reviewed the onboarding step” for a deliberate revision request. Result: no accepted leadership claim; request delivery and revised author text remain unobserved until actually checked.
R2 — Constructed temporary display choice: an accepted, accurate recommendation references a project the member no longer wants highlighted. Decision: use that Received item’s display toggle and inspect the saved state. Result: its profile display can be recorded; neither author deletion nor removal of old screenshots is established.
R3 — Constructed wrong side: a member hides a recommendation they wrote under Given but still sees it on the recipient’s profile. Decision: identify the two displays and use the appropriate author/content route if a correction is needed. Result: the observations can coexist; repeatedly hiding the own-profile copy cannot verify a recipient-side correction.
Quote only the supported part
A safe recap note names the contribution you can verify and keeps any outcome limitation. If the author praised a clearer handoff, do not rewrite it as measured retention growth. A screenshot of the recommendation does not supply the missing measurement. Hold a public quote when wording or permission remains unresolved.
If a recommendation changes, inspect any quotation, image alternative and translation you control. Keep the prior quotation version and correction reason privately. A corrected profile cannot recall a downloaded presentation or update another person’s repost. Name that remaining distribution gap rather than claiming a universal fix.
Finish with a precise private record
The worksheet separates source text, factual issue, intended action, pending/accepted state, Received display, quotation permission and readback time. Leave an unobserved action unknown. Completed notes can contain another member’s words and should stay private; the public examples need no real names or inbox.
Primary help was read on 1 November 2026. These cases are constructed; no recommendation was accepted, dismissed, hidden or requested. The packet supports a decision and verification path, not a claim of better reputation, reader preference or customer acquisition.
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