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“This is a professional website,” McAlpine replied. “Please act like a professional.”

Quick as a flash, 19 hours later, Conway had cooked up a zinger of a response. “A simple ‘thank you’ would have sufficed hunni,” he wrote. “Be more nice. This is a nice website for nice people.”

And there it is: the unerring conviction of the sleazy man that any and all women will be deeply flattered by his attention, wherever and whenever he decides to bestow it upon then – and that in complimenting a woman, he is simply being a ‘nice guy’.

Time for McAlpine to lay down some truth.

“You’re misinformed,” she wrote. “The LinkedIn mission statement is ‘To connect the world’s professionals to make them more productive and successful.’ Not ‘use it to message women the same you would on Tinder without the need to match them, because it’s irrelevant whether they want your attention or not, they should be thankful for your compliments on a professional website’.

“I’m not grateful for your comment,” she continued. “I find it entirely unprofessional that you’re using this platform to message women, so why would I thank you?”

“Do not use this website like Tinder”: woman shuts down man who propositioned her over LinkedIn