While many enjoy social validation from likes, shares, and comments on the LinkedIn platform, others prefer limiting public visibility to this engagement for personal or professional reasons.
Fortunately, LinkedIn offers users fine-grained control to hide likes, reshares, and comments from your profile activity if desired for privacy.
In this guide, I will walk through the steps to:
- Hide the number of likes and reshares on your posts
- Disable commenting ability on individual posts
- Completely turn off comments across your profile
These options empower managing feed reactions tailored to individual preferences or audience types without compromising the usage of the platform otherwise.
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Overview: Controlling Visibility of LinkedIn Post Insights
As background, when sharing articles, images, videos, and other content through your LinkedIn feed, public engagement gets displayed by default including:
Like counts: Total number liking the post
Reshare totals: Times followers reshaped with their networks
Comment summaries: Visible comment threads from anyone interacting below
While many welcome the validation this social signal offers, others prefer limiting visibility into these metrics that can influence internal biases on influence or popularity unrelated to quality content shared.
For personal branding, deemphasizing public vanity metrics also keeps focus on nourishing communities without over-indexing on high metrics that may not materialize.
Professionally, hiding commentary removes potential exposure to unwanted feedback visible on a public figure’s professional profile from broader audience types.
Fortunately, LinkedIn provides privacy configuration options addressing these understandable needs…
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How to Hide LinkedIn Post Like and Reshare Counts
The ability launched in 2022 to hide public visibility of:
Reactions / Likes
Reshares
This applies to all post types including:
- Articles
- Images
- Videos
- Documents
To disable like and reshare counts visibility:
Step 1: Log In to your LinkedIn profile
Step 2:
- From LinkedIn’s homepage, click the “Me” icon in top right corner
- Select “View profile”
Step 3: Choose “Settings & Privacy”
Step 4:
- Pick “Account Preferences” from the left menu
- Under “Profile Viewing and Engagement”, toggle “Show post views, likes and reshares” OFF
This immediately hides the visibility of likes and reshares from your profile and prevents future numbers from being displayed publicly.
Note that you will still privately see metrics in post-creation tools and analytics to track performance. Just limits public visibility protecting from influence.
For personal accounts wanting to maintain networking authenticity without vanity or peer pressure, this delivers needed relief!
Now what if you want to select specific posts to disable commentary on without a complete removal…
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How to Turn Off Comments on Individual LinkedIn Posts
When publishing new posts, LinkedIn allows disabling comments strictly on that piece of content only while keeping it enabled everywhere else:
To turn off commenting for a single post:
- Create a new post as usual
- Before publishing, click the three dots “More Options” from top right
- Choose “Turn off commenting for this post” toggle
This immediately greys out the comment field on that post for all viewers globally preventing anyone from leaving reactions.
Use this surgical approach to limit commentary just where desired rather than entirely across your profile.
Helpful for sensitive topics directed at certain communities allowing discourse in other channels.
But what if seeking to disable ALL commentary from your profile altogether from followers and beyond?…
How to Completely Disable Comments on Your LinkedIn Profile
The nuclear option exists to switch off commenting abilities from public viewers completely across your LinkedIn profile.
To entirely disable commenting on the profile:
- From the homepage, click the “Me” icon top right
- Choose “Settings & Privacy”
- Select “Account Preferences” from the left menu
- Under “Profile Viewing and Engagement”
- Toggle “Allow viewers to comment on posts” OFF
This prevents anyone globally from commenting anywhere on your profile as seen here greyed out:
Use sparingly with caution as disables community engagement entirely. But necessary for public figures, confidential work matters not warranting open commentary and similar use cases requiring discussion limitations.
Can always re-enable commenting privileges down the road on a post-by-post basis using prior single post disabling workflow covered above.
So in summary:
- Hide All Likes & Reshares: Configure profile preferences
- Disable Single Post Comments: Turn off per post
- Completely Remove All Commenting: Toggle viewers permission off
Experiment with these settings to find your optimal balance between public interactions vs privacy.
Now let’s cover special cases like hiding LinkedIn likes and comments appearing in private groups separately beyond main feed settings…
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Hiding Likes and Comments Within LinkedIn Groups
The visibility controls above address your central public profile’s activity feed and articles.
But an additional consideration is engagement inside private or public LinkedIn Groups you created or are just a member of.
Groups have their own isolated activity streams, discussions and content shared not tied to that main profile.
Here is how to configure liking and commenting preferences specifically for LinkedIn Groups using similar privacy toggles:
For groups you administrate and manage:
- Navigate to the group homepage
- Click the “Manage” tab from the sub-header
- Choose “Settings” from left sidebar
- Open the “Commenting & Likes” subsection
- Toggle features on/off per preferences
If just a regular group member:
- Visit group’s main page
- Locate the “Members” tab horizontal menu
- Click name dropdown by your profile
- Select “Commenting & Likes”
- Adjust settings to desired visibility
So treat your group privacy protocols separately from main profile behavior. Member roles and audiences often differ requiring tailored configurations between the two environments.
LinkedIn Post and Comment Visibility Cheat Sheet
To summarize key details controlling LinkedIn post insights and commenting in one place, leverage this quick cheat sheet:
| Objective | Solution | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Hide All Likes & Reshares | Toggle “Show post views, likes and reshares” OFF | Settings & Privacy > Preferences > Profile Viewing & Engagement |
| Disable Comments Per Post | Click “Turn off commenting for this post” | Post editor additional options |
| Remove All Commenting | Toggle “Allow viewers to comment on posts” OFF | Settings & Privacy > Preferences > Profile Viewing & Engagement |
| Group Comment Settings | Commenting profiles and preferences | Individual Group Settings |
Use the above settings to appropriately calibrate your desired interaction and visibility levels across core LinkedIn feeds and private groups.
I hope this gives you clarity in controlling comments and like visibility to focus on authentic networking! Let me know if any other LinkedIn privacy questions.
