Hey there,
so I'm gonna talk here about what i consider as a "loophole"
Im a lvl 2 seller on fiverr, I've always had loads of orders and long queues to the point i had to pause my gig for months before i finish the work and unpause it again,
for about 3 years i never had a negative review, i actually had only two "4 stars reviews" the rest were all 5,
until recently when I blocked a client that i did not want to work with again because he asks for too much extras (and ofc as a seller you have to comply)
2 days later i've been restricted from using "Promoted Gigs" i knew then that he did a private negative review, but it was ok for me because i don't really need that feature,
the problem was that i had 0 orders in 5 days which was weird, it was until 10 days that i found out i was shaddow banned by the algorithms and placed in the very last page of the search,
i looked that up here in this forum and saw Top Sellers getting that shaddow ban from 10 days up to 7 months! some of them used fiverr as their main and only income stream, so that was disasterous for them, (i use fiverr as my main and only income stream too btw)
so basically .... a rival user, who have a gig that is same as you but not as rated as you, can simply get a client account, place order at your gig , negative reviews you in private and boom you're gone, you're at the very end of search with 0 order and he gets to take your place.
any clue for this ?
ofc he should be , some clients are now openly blackmailing sellers + if you report that you risk of losing the account
