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Pro Tip - always ask your buyers if they are using the app or the website. If they say app, ask them to please close the order and rate on the website. How things are designed, on average, ratings will be higher when done on the website. Guaranteed.

The app still has emojis, though...

Ok, so they removed the emojis. However: The scale is still unbalanced. Very poor - Poor - Average - Very good - Exceptional This is not a fair scale. Other interesting things of note: 3 is considered a "low rating" - in other words, average is bad. 4 stars ("very good") can only have negative qualifiers - you can't rate 4 and praise anything.

You reply anything you want (you need to reply something so it doesn't count against you) and then you mark as spam.

You've been bamboozled

The interesting part is that everyone will have 4.9 now (apparently because there's no pressure to have 5.0, and 4.9 is actually better), yet the level threshold is still showing at 4.7. So there's a window of 0.2, basically. No pressure at all!

And how do I look? Quite curious now.

We were ahead of the curve, even on this! We were already at 4.9, so nothing happened. Take that! I'm seriously thinking about opening a gig in the "predict the future" vertical. We dodge mines that don't even exist yet!

They don't give out refunds for spam clicks. I've mentioned it to my SM multiple times, he just goes "oh well, it's the way it is".

And another one. THIS COSTS ME MONEY. I'll just deactivate it again, this is ridiculous.

Total garbage.

Got a promoted spammer asking for me to give them work just yesterday. I love paying for garbage.

I turn them on and off, but when I have them on I have it always set at $0.02. Honestly, given the lead quality, it's already overpriced at 2 cents.

They can know, it's public information. The fee is stated on purchase, and the TOS outlines the commission - and you should read the TOS when creating an account.

Literally every publicly traded company. Which Fiverr is.

Yes, we all know. It's been a thing for years.

Not gonna be able to do that with $1000, those buyer fees add up quick.

Just call it "proofreading" and remove any mention of academic anything, solved.

The level doesn't matter. If it's just proof reading, should be fine, but it's a dangerous field to be in.

I'm not sure what you mean. You can't offer university research papers either. Anything academic is forbidden, .

That would cover needed voice over work for my video work for a bit, that's the main thing I outsource.

What I value above anything else is reliability. If you deliver exactly what you said you would, exactly when you said you would, I really can't ask more than that - and that will already put you above most.

So, you prefer sellers that can't get it right the first time, you prefer to keep having to go back and forth, or you just don't know what you want / keep changing your mind?

This is 100% not true. 95% of my orders get the "late" thing during revision. My success score is 10, and delivery on time is a positive. What I do is make the first delivery within the deadline, 100% of the time. Not late even once. It's also extremely rare that I ask for time extensions - maybe once or twice a year. That's enough. If revising after the deadline, or getting the order marked as complete after the deadline counted against anything, I would have terrible marks on delivery time, as that's the norm for me. Sellers have 0 control over the revision. Buyers can extend it, ask for infinite revisions, etc. If that impacted delivery on time, it would be impossible to have a positive delivery on time.

@carineb Explained exactly what is wrong with the rating system, and how to make it right. There's no arguing the above posts. If Fiverr wants honest, fair, ratings, they'll implement something like that. If they don't, it literally means Fiverr wants to skew the ratings, on purpose, with no regard for seller or buyer opinions. It's not about transparency, it's straight up dishonest.