visualstudios

Overall this new system seems to be aimed at lowering ratings across the board. Some points on this: 1 - Yes, a marketplace with all 5's everywhere can seem suspicious. However, I'm not sure Fiverr would rather have 4's everwhere, do you think that will increase sales? Specially for long time users, who are already used to how the system works, and know by now to avoid any gig with a 4 star review average, as that has always been bad? 2 - How will this be applied to different sellers? Imagine that going forward, with the new system, the average rating everyone will get is 4.5, because the system is more punitive. If a seller has 10 thousand reviews on a gig, they'll go years while maintaining a 5 star public review average, since the new 4.5 reviews they will be getting going forward will take a really long time to bring the average down. Therefore they'll be unfairly given an advantage vs a seller with fewer reviews, not because their work is better (they're both getting the same review average from now on), but because 95% of their work was reviewed using a different, more lenient system, so they have a huge headstart of perfect 5 star reviews, that were very easy to get before. This is a major problem. Yes, their private score will be the same, so they will be impacted equally in terms of search results, etc., but from the buyer's perspective all they will see is a seller with a 4.5 gig and a seller with a 5.0 gig - even if their current performance is exactly the same.

I find that the labels (and emojis) on the rating system are not balanced. While "exceptional" is better than the previous "perfect" (as nothing is "perfect"), it's not a linear progression. To be consistent, it should go: Very poor -> poor -> average -> good -> very good. Why is one step down from average "poor", but one step above average "very good"? That system seems designed to make lower grades more frequent. Also it's strange that the negatives are "poor" and "very poor", while the positives are "good" and "exceptional". The language could be more neutral using the suggestion I provided above. "Very good" should be enough for the top end, if a buyer is truly amazed, they can always leave a tip for exceptional service (going "above and beyond").

No. Although, in the case of X, probably yeah since they themselves can't own the copyright for what is just an unicode character lol

Don't do it again. You ain't getting paid for that, and you should have known better.

What are you uncertain about? Would be difficult to find a more obvious example of breaking TOS than that.

They could be grouped, yes, but I don't see a big downside to the way it's implemented now. They could also make the inbound messages be on the left and the outbound on the right, as plenty of applications do, but again those are minimal improvements. Calling it "horrendous" is quite the overstatement. As for "visual chaos"... There's plenty of space there to have the avatar before every message. It doesn't look cluttered, or disorganized. It also has upsides, like being able to screenshot a single message and always have it include the sender information and picture, which wouldn't happen if you could have 10 messages in a row with just one avatar and name for all of them - if you wanted to just capture one in the middle, it would have no information about the sender.

They're still trying with the .scr files?

Be afraid, be very afraid.

The best way to answer such questions is not to answer such questions. It's pointless. Also, that wasn't even a question...

Starlink? For real now, certain operators may be down, while others are not. Or landline internet may be down, and cellular data still be up, for example.

The internet is down in an entire country because of a fire in one building? That's... odd if true

Maybe? Why even go to the trouble of stealing their identity, if they can just ask for $350 directly lol. This is not a "maybe", this is not sophisticated, this is not a grand operation. This is as basic as it gets, and if someone needs to come and ask about it, they shouldn't be allowed on the internet in the first place. It's straight up saying "hey, I have money for you, pay me first and then I'll send you the money". If someone approached you on the street and said "hey, give me 20 bucks, and I'll come back here tomorrow and give you $200", would anyone fall for the "scam"? I fail to see the difference.

I suppose it will depend on the field of work. Doing what I do I can't imagine not being at a computer, a phone is not a substitute anyway...

It would be cool if the App had feature parity with the desktop version for sure. I find using the desktop version much better, so that's what I end up doing and only use the app on the go for quick messages, so it doesn't affect me much, but it would be an improvement. I think the challenge there is UI, how to cram so much information into a tiny view.

I know, and I find that to only be true about as often as buyers who do not have the message, so I don't take it seriously.

That's an extra perk, it's not the reason I subscribe to it. Ratings can be known without it anyway. The order values and completion are a thing, but I don't find them to be very useful, generally, because they are not very granular, and they seem to not always be correct.

Yep, I do. Much more info on desktop than on the mobile app, I use desktop almost exclusively.

I'll be getting the Fiverr select thing in the next couple of days, I'm curious to see if I see any changes as a buyer, but I don't think there's anything, other than the badge.

What stats? The ones seller plus members can see?

What do buyer badges mean to Fiverr? Like, what do they change about a buyer profile? More tools, perks, etc.?

It's not the same thing, because the threshold to get those is not the same. I would like for the buyer badges to mean something, but they don't mean a lot, unfortunately. It's weird that they would think the messages are spam though, regardless of having a badge or not. I get quite a bit of spam, and I never mistook a real client for a spammer, it's really easy to tell. I suppose it depends on the first message you sent them.

Your account is from 2021. Not new. Also, your hands are green. That can't be good.

In my experience, the badges mean next to nothing, so I don't look at them. I've had spammers with the crown, fiverr business hagglers, etc. What counts for me is the message they send me, as well as other information about them, not any badge.

If you're sleeping, you're sleeping. You wake up, and check notifications in the morning. You won't miss anything. Are you saying you want to be awaken at night every time you get a new message? That sounds like a nightmare. I'd just put my phone in silent mode for the night, if that were the case.

Yes, should be.