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Gig Removed: Watch Your Words


ravenspointe1

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Recently I had a long-running and best-selling Gig removed. It took me by surprise as it wasn’t spammy over promises and I wasn’t offering anything illegal or even morally questionable. I believe it came down to two words that were “flagged” by the Gig review bot. (I’m assuming it’s a bot because a human would most-likely understand the context of those two words.) The words were Academic Review. The reason for the deletion came in a letter informing me that schools have “honor codes” and it’s against Fiverr guidelines to provide homework. Yes. I know, and that was not the offer. Often in creating Surveys, buyers request a review of academic studies literature. In other words - read this stuff to understand my survey. It can be time-consuming and increases the Gig cost. But those two words, intent misinterpreted, got my Gig removed. I do a lot of writing and surveys on Fiverr. If the content is not, by its own nature illegal, I don’t ask and wouldn’t know how the buyer is using it. My very long point is - beware of your word choice. Has anyone else run into this issue? Do you put disclaimers about “not” doing homework in your Gig? (I added it to my FYI).

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You might try “Literature Review of professional journals” instead. Those who want a literature review will know what you mean … and it shouldn’t get flagged.

That could also be flagged, though, and perceived as unethical and confusing. “Literature review” is a specific type of academic document. Creating that for a client would be unethical too and it doesn’t sound like that’s what the buyer is offering, anyway.

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I know what a literature review is, having carried out several of them not so long ago.

The wording isn’t likely to trigger anything - although perhaps “professional journal research to base surveys upon” might be a safer alternative. The problem is that phrase is a lot of characters …

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