[Any AMC or GME apes here?]

As of October 30, 2021, 5.2 million shares DRSed.
As of January 29, 2022, 8.9 million shares DRSed.
As of April 30, 2022, 12.7 million shares DRSed.

3.7mil diff then 3.8mil diff. No falloff. That makes me feel like there's a set number of apes who are spending a consistent budget on dips and registering them.
 

[The insights feature has officially launched. (probably)]

Where do I find that section? (Or is this just for Business buyers?)

 

[Edit: Nevermind, I found it. It's at the bottom of the Profile page. I was checking the different tabs in Settings.]

[New Blue ID "Verified" Check Mark]

The browser could matter. Ex, if I view my profile in Chrome, I can expand my review list and see more than the last five. If I view my profile in Opera, the button isn't there. Might be a Fiverr bug.

[Any AMC or GME apes here?]

I don't hold GME, but I do find it exciting to follow. I'm eager to see another DRS number tomorrow. Between that and the ever-increasing lending fees, I agree that it feels like a breaking point is approaching. But, the thing that keeps me out, is the idea is that the SEC has suffered fatal regulatory capture, and they'll engineer the break to go in their favour.

I'm holding Immutable X as an indirect bet on the company, its people, and its strategies. I'm a volatility trader anyways. I like disruptive influences.

[Copyright ownership of first delivery, after revision completed]

35 minutes ago, nofurthernotice said:

If I have purchased a design from an artist, do I automatically have the copyright?

Depends if the Gig includes Commercial Use or not. Per the ToS, if the gig is silent on the topic, it's presumed to include Commericial Use.
https://www.fiverr.com/terms_of_service#ownership

So, unless the seller declined to offer Commercial Use by specifically turning the option off in the Gig to sell it as an extra or not sell it at all, then you would have all rights.

[What's the strangest soda you've ever had?]

"Raspberry Candy" reminds me of a local drink: Anne of Green Gables Raspberry Cordial.

It's still readily available locally and somewhat ubiquitous.

There used to be a local brand of "Birch Beer" which was made using tree bark. It was basically caramel and mint.

I picked up some Pineapple Fanta today. I was excited about it because I'd had Pineapple Crush in Newfoundland and it was so good, but only expensive importers brought it locally so I didn't have it often. Haven't tried it yet though.

[Would you design an NFT?]

Personally, I'd take the money and run. I'd be more confused than upset, and then intrigued, if someone managed to successfully flip something I'd made. The supply of NFTs is nearly limitless, and the demand is nearly non-existent. At my day job I'm testing an MMORPG with random loot drops. Every sword and shield is an NFT, so it's churning out hundreds every hour automatically. If someone manages to sell something out of that pile for thousands of bucks I would want to know more about the buyer and their motivation. Basically, the guy buying the NFT from you, and then doing the footwork to sell it, would be doing some market research for you. You might be able to leverage promotion of that successful sale as a sort of 'work reference' into buyer confidence to sell some on your own and take the full cut.

[New Buyers should buy from Established Sellers]

#7 is really, really important to consider. It's also usable when budget-limited and sticking to newer/cheaper sellers. Consider what is the smallest possible deliverable within the project, and pay sellers one by one to do it until finding someone good enough. It can take a long time to find good people, but that time is potentially regained by having a few good candidates running concurrently.

I want to expand on #2 though. The high rating count could also mean the seller has done enough projects that they know common miscommunications, and may ask accurate clarifications which you didn't know to consider. A new buyer who doesn't know how to communicate what they want will get a failed delivery no matter what kind of seller they give the details to. Garbage in, garbage out. A buyer can figure it out the hard way by grinding through cheap sellers and learning from mistakes, or they can potentially get some bonus free guidance from a responsive seller who sees the revision traps before they fall into them. The former method is cheaper, but shouldn't be tried on a timeline/schedule. You can have things three ways; good, fast, and cheap. Pick two.

[Block / hide posts by user (Resolved)]

Expand "Ignore" to hide threads which the Ignored user started

Maybe this is a bug. I tried cleaning up Tips for Buyers by putting all the sellers who post their gigs there on Ignore. I checked all the boxes for the three available ignore types. I gave it an hour it case it took time to apply. I still see their threads. All Ignore does is hide their post within the thread. 

[Why there no views,impression,click in my gig]

The money is likely in some random gig type that nobody really thinks of. Like, in the last shareholder letter, Fiverr was talking about how "writing airbnb listings" was a big performer for them.  

Like, possibly, the thing to do may be to identify how wealthy people invest their money, then identify a sub-component of the investment work process, and then offer to handle it for them.

[How to get exactly what you are looking for!]

As direct advice for buyers; I've found that whenever I've gotten a botched delivery, it's because I didn't add enough context. If the seller know what you're using the delivery for, what it fits into, they'll be able to make it fit better.

The earliest example if this I encountered was while getting landscape art for a fantasy setting. A few of the deliveries for some ocean-themes pieces contained modern ships. I hadn't mentioned in the task details that it was for a fantasy setting.

Like, at the start, my tasks details looked like this:

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Hello again, I'm wondering if you would be willing to do another landscape at the Basic/$5 tier, inspired by this text:
"Whale Migrations - Mass migration of giant sea life travels below the ship, their geyser-like emissions causing trouble."
I don't have a specific thought on how it should look, but it should generally look like it's in the middle of the ocean. I don't need detailed whales or anything, just spouts/geysers among the waves is good. It would be the same book ratio as before of 8.5 inches wide by 11 inches high with anything between 72 and 300 dpi being fine.

And by the end of it, my tasks details looked more like:

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Hello! I'm wondering if you would be willing to do a landscape at the Basic tier inspired by this text:
"Whale Migrations - Mass migration of giant sea life travels below the ship, their geyser-like emissions causing trouble."
I don't have a specific thought on how it should look, but it should generally look like it's in the middle of the ocean. I don't need detailed whales or anything, just spouts/geysers among the waves is good.
- The setting is Fantasy like Dungeons & Dragons (no modern-looking elements).
- It is summer-themed (clear, bright skies).
- It is far out in the ocean (no land visible).
- Daytime is preferred so that details are more discernable.
It would be for a book, sized 8.5 inches wide by 11 inches high. Anything between 72 and 300 dpi would be fine, in a .png.

Basically, the list in the middle is something that will come from experience. It's hard to predict. It would be nice if sellers also kept track of those mis-understandings which caused revision requests, to pose it like a set of questions to new buyers. For example, the question about "Day time or night time?" came from a seller. 

[How Do You Handle Buyers Who Don't........]

2 hours ago, tlvoiceover said:

Hi Guys, currently I'm at a new seller level for Voiceover Work and I've been running into buyers who don't purchase the required commercial rights, or they change their script expecting it to be part of their 1 free revision. Since I'm a new seller I let those things slide because I'm afraid they might cancel the order if I ask them to pay additional fees for these extras. What has your experience been like when things like this come up? Do you enforce it or let it go?

I think, the best thing to do, might be to ask them if the project is for personal use, almost conversationally. And if they confirm it's not personal, maybe pull out something like "Oh! Yeah, it happens sometimes that Fiverr doesn't really put it prominent enough in the order flow, but there's a Commercial Use add-on to claim the rights. Just to make sure there's no grey area about ownership, could you tag that one on so that the on-site copy of the agreement has it under your name instead of mine?" Like, you're not accusing, it's not their fault, but it is a thing that needs to be done, and now they know.

[What is SPAM when it comes to the Fiverr Forums?]

3 minutes ago, smashradio said:

Someone who can sift through and decide what goes on the front page and what goes in the spam pot. 

That makes me think about Steam's "Curator" community feature. If I'm understanding it correctly, any random user can set up a stream of game reviews and any other random user can follow it. So, the implementation here might be something like an individual poster making a List of solid threads, and anyone can peruse that set of threads. Might only need to port over the List/Heart feature from the main site.

[What is SPAM when it comes to the Fiverr Forums?]

What about this: The Fiverr search options let you filter by seller country of residence. What if the forums let us filter by poster country of residence?

[Can I get my money back as a buyer ?]

I'm a buyer and have had orders cancelled before. You will get your money back in the form of fiverr credit, not a refund to your method of payment. 

[How to negotiate and get better deals on Fiverr (without seeming rude!)]

Sort of an elaboration on #7; I've been offered discounts before from sellers I use a lot, specifically to entice me to place bulk orders. However, I'm generally accepting on the first delivery with no revision requests and my task descriptions have been evolving into a pretty decent state where little is unclear or ambiguous, so they're easy to action. As a buyer, if you consistently take less time and effort to please, you may see it reflected in the offers.

[Stop hiring bad sellers! ?]

How does someone know a bad buyer when looking at their buyer profile? A lot of people are going to hesitate to put negatives in a review in case they miss out on future work. I assume if a buyer profile just says "Outstanding experience!" over and over, there's possibly nothing good to say about that buyer and maybe stay away from them.

[Would you welcome a paid Fiverr membership (as a seller)?]

49 minutes ago, newsmike said:

That is quite a set of mental gymnastics to go through as opposed to just quoting me correctly and responding to what I actually said.

I mean, right back at ya, bud. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

How about this. Instead, let's talk about the Dream Scenario enunciator posted or my List curation option. Do you have any issues with those, or are they doomed to failure without a fee? They at least attack the mechanisms through which scammers operate rather than simply thinning their margins as if that will do something to stop them.

[Would you welcome a paid Fiverr membership (as a seller)?]

@newsmikeI do know that you never explicitly suggested it. The quoted phrasing shows that; I said 'the thought', not 'your thought'. I'm saying it's at the core of the "seller pays = better sellers" mindset, as if there cannot be a cobra effect from a seller's membership fee, as if paying a fee has a prescriptive effect inherent to it; a virtue.

Scammers will not be warded off the site by a fee like a vampire is warded off by garlic. All it does is increase their cost of business and meddle with their margins. If they're profiting now, they'll be profiting then, and stick to it. The people who suffer the most will be those with desirable skill sets but not a lot of business savvy.

@enunciatorThe Dream Scenario is viable, perhaps even more dream-like; the seller could get paid for the test gig. And, the test could vary in such a way that it's not predictable for scammers to go grab something pre-existing off the internet. I'm doing that vetting process right now for myself. Fiverr could open a program, something maybe like Buyer Request, where if there is a well-endorsed buyer with a lot of tasks, those tasks could be distributed as tests, the applicant sellers could interact with the buyer, and we see how it goes. I already pay for deliveries from untested/zero review sellers. There are probably other buyers doing similar. We just need  a means of integration. Heck, it could probably be done via shared public Lists, but then that type of "curation" is open to a lot of biases. Maybe there could also be a community solution via public Lists?

[Would you welcome a paid Fiverr membership (as a seller)?]

1 minute ago, newsmike said:

and not one has suggested an alternative.

I've mentioned mine twice. You're ignoring it because it doesn't fit with the option you're pushing for, which stems from the thought that finances are a virtue on par with heart and soul. Probably people with only heart and soul but no finance to use as a crutch, put more of those two things into it to compensate. Adding the fee could remove more heart and soul than is gained, lowering quality further.

[Would you welcome a paid Fiverr membership (as a seller)?]

All the fee guarantees is that they're putting their financial assets in, not heart and soul.

[Would you welcome a paid Fiverr membership (as a seller)?]

A very optimistic conclusion. One that seems to assume wealth is a virtue and that moneyed sellers are consistently good sellers.

[Would you welcome a paid Fiverr membership (as a seller)?]

14 minutes ago, enunciator said:

It denotes someone who is willing and able to drop large sums of money in hopes of getting a larger return.

Good point. Adding the fee might make the seller base trend more "speculative", leaving the share of those who do profit-seeking behaviours like upselling comparatively larger, and put buyers off the site.

While trying out D&D Writers, I ran into a "professional" who basically gave me a rider of demands about getting to preview the final work, getting a free copy of the final work, etc. It was early in the process and I didn't have any final candidates yet, so I accepted the demands. His delivered product was fine, it matched his better peers for price, quality, and speed, but I didn't get any of the diva behaviour from the peers. So, I paid him for the one quest and moved on with the others for the remaining four quest types.

Probably the people I continued with have fiverr as their side gig, and the high maintenance writer might have fiverr as their main gig. I've had frank conversations about price with the sellers I want to use for a lot of work, to let them know my budget, how they compare to their peers, and what I expect their work is actually worth above their peers, as part of trying to lock in the prices to some degree. A decent chunk of them are simply excited about the project, and happy to be included/appreciated, and are willing to let me sit at the entry price so they can stay part of it.

Monthly fees would possibly push out those side-gig types and while retaining the seemingly-main-gig types. The reputation of fiverr might simply then morph from "low quality" to, like, "complicated" or something. So, while there would be fewer sellers, there would be fewer buyers, and competition would simply be differently rough, and fiverr overall would be smaller with less going on.

[Would you welcome a paid Fiverr membership (as a seller)?]

To me, it's basically a cost of business. I was going to have a learning curve regardless. A good chunk of people I went back too were initially in the "bad" pile until I realized some flaw in how I write spec set them up for failure. I've changed my spec template like eight times to be more clear and hold more relevant details with fewer potentially confusing details. If I had that learning curve with higher priced people, the damage of me not knowing how to write spec would have been worse. I'd possibly already be washed out.

[Would you welcome a paid Fiverr membership (as a seller)?]

It didn't really get discussed, because it was at the bottom of my post in the middle of the $250 debate, but I proposed a potential system for weeding out scammers without needing a fee. I'm already using the system myself because fiverr's suggestions are always upsells.

I knew coming in, because of the site's reputation, that there would be a lot of waste on inadequate sellers. I budgeted an assumption that a third of the stuff I received would need to be tossed. It took me giving work to about 50 sellers to get about 100 pieces of art I can use after about 140 deliveries. About 25 sellers were just bad, 15 increased their prices within a few orders, and I have about 10 left that are likely reliable for the remaining 80 pieces I need at prices I can afford. I have similar results among the people who delivered D&D rulebook style writing.

I have the data Fiverr would need to make a meaningful cut to the bottom end of a few niche category's quality without meaningfully affecting prices. It would be better for everyone, meeting all these goals, if they knew what I knew. But, the only thing they ask is if I'm satisfied or not and if I'll use the delivery or not. I paid for about 40 deliveries where I then turned around and said I'm not going to use them, after paying for them. That should make Fiverr suspicious of something. Does anything happen though? Who knows.

I feel the system should be something along those lines, where when you have a buyer who is casting a wide net, do something like reduce fiver's fees so they can cast it wider, and give them a more detailed feedback options, and then put that type of stuff over to the Trust & Safety committee for review.