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How to See Someone's Comments on LinkedIn (The Real Path)
How to see someone's comments on LinkedIn: the exact Activity path on desktop and mobile, the filter most people miss, and why some profiles show nothing.
By Animesh Kudake, Co-founder, Apna Project
The short version
- To see someone's comments on LinkedIn, open their profile, scroll to the Activity section, click Show all activity, then switch the filter to Comments.
- The Comments filter shows what they wrote, not the full thread, so you often have to click through to the original post to understand the exchange.
- An empty Activity section usually means private settings or genuine inactivity. LinkedIn hides the section entirely after 360 days with no activity.
- There is no search box for another member's comments, so finding one specific old comment means scrolling or using a site search on Google.
- Viewing a profile can show up in their profile views, so change your viewing setting first if you want to look quietly.
When the Activity section is empty
An empty Activity block is the most common failure, and it is usually not a bug.
LinkedIn's help documentation says plainly that if you see no activity on a member's profile, "the member may have set their settings to private, or they may not have any recent activity." There is a third case worth knowing: an account with no activity for 360 days has its Activity section hidden from the profile entirely.
So an empty section tells you one of three things, and you cannot tell which from the outside. A dormant account and a locked down account look identical. That ambiguity is deliberate on LinkedIn's part and there is no way around it.
Finding one specific comment they left
This is where it gets ugly, because there is no search box inside another member's activity.
Two workarounds, in the order we would try them:
Browser find. Open their Comments activity, scroll until the list stops loading more, then use your browser's find function for a word you remember. Crude, but it works within whatever range LinkedIn has loaded.
Google site search. Search site:linkedin.com/posts "their name" "phrase you remember". LinkedIn's public post pages sometimes include comment text, so this occasionally finds a thread the in-app path will not surface. It is inconsistent, and it will not touch anything behind a login wall.
We wrote a longer version of this hunt from the other direction, when the comment is your own and you know roughly when you left it, in how to search for an old LinkedIn comment.
Looking without leaving footprints
Reading someone's comments leaves no trace. Opening their profile to get there might.
Profile views run on your own viewing setting, not theirs. If yours is set to your full name, your visit lands in their profile views list before you have read a single comment. If you are doing research before you decide whether to engage with someone, set your viewing mode before you start browsing rather than after.
Worth being clear about what is and is not private here. Your comments are public by default and attached to your name, which is the flip side of everything above: the same path anyone uses to study someone else works on you. We went through the limits of that in can you comment anonymously on LinkedIn.
What this is genuinely good for
Three uses justify the effort, in our experience of doing this a lot.
Vetting. A person's comments are a better sample of how they think than their posts, because comments are unedited and unbranded. You learn more from ten of someone's replies than from their last five posts.
Finding where a niche lives. Pick three people who are good at your subject, read their comment history, and you have a map of which posts and which accounts your field actually gathers under. That is faster than following hashtags and considerably more accurate.
Auditing your own footprint before an interview. Run this on yourself. Whatever you find is what a hiring manager finds.
Where we would push back is using this as raw material to imitate someone. We build Commenti, which drafts comments, and the strongest constraint we put on it is that a comment has to carry something the reader knows and the model does not. Reading a competitor's comment history to copy their phrasing produces exactly the flavourless output the feed is already drowning in. Study what they choose to respond to instead. That is the reusable part, and it is also the part a tool cannot hand you.
The short version
Profile, Activity, Show all activity, switch the filter to Comments. If the section is empty, the account is either private or dormant and you will not be able to tell which. There is no search inside it, so use browser find or a Google site search for anything older than a scroll or two. And check your own profile viewing setting before you go looking, because the profile visit is the part that shows up.
Frequently asked questions
Can you see comment history on LinkedIn?
Yes, for any member whose activity is public. Open their profile, scroll to Activity, click Show all activity, and select the Comments filter. You will get a reverse chronological list of comments they left. LinkedIn does not give you a search box inside it, so older comments take scrolling.
Why can I not see someone's comments on LinkedIn?
Three common reasons. Their activity settings are private, they have not posted or commented recently, or LinkedIn has hidden the section because the account has had no activity for 360 days. A comment also disappears from the list if the underlying post was deleted by its author.
Will they know I looked at their comments?
Not for the comments themselves. But you have to open their profile to get there, and profile views are governed by your own viewing setting. If yours is set to show your name, your visit appears in their profile views list. Change the setting before you browse if that matters.
Can I see comments someone left on a private or restricted post?
No. The Activity list only surfaces comments on content you already have permission to see. If the original post was set to connections only, or the author deleted it, the comment will not render for you even when it still exists for them.
Written by the team building Commenti on real LinkedIn growth data. Found an error? Tell us and we’ll fix it. Accuracy beats winning.
Co-founder, Apna Project
Co-founder at Apna Project, where he helps founders and agencies turn ideas into products. Writes here on LinkedIn growth and what actually earns attention in a comment section. Commenti is the LinkedIn comment automation tool by Ampliflow.
Someone said something sharp in a comment section last week and you want to find the rest of what they write. Or a candidate looks good on paper and you want to see how they talk to people. Either way the question is the same: how to see someone's comments on LinkedIn, without a plugin and without guessing.
The path exists, it is two clicks deep, and almost nobody finds it because LinkedIn buries it behind a link that says "Show all activity" rather than anything containing the word comments.
Here is the whole thing, plus the parts where LinkedIn stops cooperating.
The path that works, on desktop and mobile
Open the person's profile. Scroll past the About section until you hit Activity. That block shows a preview of their recent posts and a link at the bottom.
On desktop, click Show all activity. On mobile, tap Show all. Both land you on the same activity page, which opens on Posts by default. Above the list is a row of filters. Switch it to Comments.
You now have a reverse chronological list of every comment that person has left on content you are allowed to see. LinkedIn documents this same route for your own profile and for other members' profiles in its help page on viewing member activity, which is worth knowing because it means the behaviour is intended rather than a loophole that might close.
The filter row is the whole trick. People find the Activity section constantly and then bounce off it because the default view is Posts, and plenty of prolific commenters barely post at all.
What the Comments filter actually returns
It returns their words, not the conversation.
Each row shows the comment text and a fragment of the post it was attached to. To see what they were replying to, or how the thread went afterwards, you click through. That is fine for a handful of comments and tedious for fifty, and it is the single biggest reason people give up on this halfway.
A few things that are not obvious:
If what you actually want is your own comment history rather than someone else's, the route is the same but the tooling is slightly better on your side of the fence. We covered it in how to find your comments on LinkedIn.