Response time is bad from being a buyer, now affecting selling :(

[cj_avenues]

I had a great time completing my first gig last week. Now I’m seeing lots of clicks on my gigs but no messages. I’m thinking this is due to my bad response time. I posted a gig request a long time ago and my response rate was bad due to spam, irrelevant requests, etc. I didn’t know that I had to mark these as spam to disqualify them against this score, nor did I think it mattered to do this. Now that I’m a seller and I know a bit more about the site I feel like this is really hurting me.

I’m responding to any new messages within minutes now but this is obviously pretty slow. Is there any way to reset or fix this quicker?