Although I have worked with some wonderful people during my 3 years presence on this platform, I have also come across some very rude people and also some people that don't respect or want to exploit the seller, e.g. not submitting the requirements, not responding and eventually having to cancel the order, or asking for more work which in most cases I did deliver without extra payment. I have numerous examples that could have me writing for hours here, and certainly have kept me awake at night from the stressful experience, because I have had more than 4500 complete orders within 3 years.
If Fiverr would be fair and kept the balance between sellers - buyers (which is I think one the most important issues here), they would need to find a way to filter buyers that are dishonest. For example why not introduce a secret rating system (from our input or from behavior on the platform) to rate buyer and use this score to weight their input and the severity of a cancellation etc. For example, I don't think that a buyer who has several cancellations should have these cancellations taken into account. The problem is definitely theirs.
Furthermore, I would be happy to have an option to accept orders. Most of the time, people just order from me without even contacting. I don't have an option to have them even send me a message to check with me before ordering. There are some very rare people who send me a message to ask me if I am available to work with them and I really appreciate this.
Having said this, I'm really tired with all these and since I realized some months ago that this rating system was active in the background, seeing my work going down hill, I started working on my own website, which is almost done. I'm not going to leave Fiverr, but wont take it as seriously as I did. This is a very TOXIC environment that even though I appreciate the chance I have been given, my health is seriously affected by this whole situation and it is not worth it any more.