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Idk, everything I learned about investing was on Wolf of Wall Street. And that other movie where Christian Bale did the intelligent superthinker thing during the 2008 crisis, although I spent most of that movie going ???? and not understanding anything. Which probably means it was a good movie, amirite?

That's me right now. It's coming along swimmingly. It'll be even better once I've mastered NLP and semantic SEO. Which I won't be selling on Fiverr because I'm not down with 30-day review periods for an industry which can't guarantee results that fast. A review period which is specifically there to combat the awful sellers on the platform - such as sellers who insist they don't use AI at all then give tips on how to evade AI detection minutes later - without actually manually dealing with them. I can always be reviewed on Google. Sadly, Google is not as advanced as Fiverr when it comes to state-of-the-art tech so I'll just have to put up with the fact they only do stars. How medieval.

It is a very parasitic relationship with an incredibly uneven balance of power. It's remarkable how this launch has amplified the worst traits of Fiverr all in one effortlessly breathless marketing campaign. And, ooh, just 4 days before their next big breathless PR blitz for the investors' stuff. I'd be rather worried about my investment if I peeped into the forum and saw a) multiple and extended complaints about the new system and Fiverr's woeful implementation/complete lack of communication/confused explanations b) Barely-there efforts to address most complaints and outright avoidance of Difficult Questions asked by the platform's top sellers. c) Sellers who make millions of dollars leaving due to Fiverr's mismanagement who are threatening to take stuff to the media and industry leaders d) an inability to implement a basic, fair, and transparent review system that all users can understand and use without getting confused e) whatever the current levels system actually is or how it works It would concern me slightly, and I'd wonder how transparent their shareholder letters and investor reports were being, considering the gargantuan fail on the seller front.

Memo to Fiverr from Edelman:

It is Sunday though. That's the classic day for boring things. The Edelman article about INNOVATION IN PERIL (link) is actually quite a good read. It's basically saying "the establishment has completely screwed the pooch on everything since 2019 and continues to do so and now the little people don't trust us. Like, at all. What to do before we're all tossed on the bonfire of revolution?"

(I'm sorry for being boring)

BTW, I'm doing some research at the moment for an article about online reputation management. There's some good stats in here that Fiverr might like to look at. What's brilliant about this blog post is that it's full of sources and citations. https://www.minclaw.com/online-reputation-management-statistics/ If you remember, Fiverr said "research shows" that people find 4.0 - 4.9 star reviews more trustworthy than 5 star reviews. The 54% stat is more focused on local biz than online platforms, but the link to the source has some further interesting stats. Anyway, the second one - the profiteers r bad one - is based on the "Edelman Trust Barometer". https://www.edelman.com/trust/trust-barometer They have what looks like an interesting article: "The 2024 Edelman Trust Barometer reveals a new paradox at the heart of society. Rapid innovation offers the promise of a new era of prosperity, but instead risks exacerbating trust issues, leading to further societal instability and political polarization." Anyway Fiverr, still waiting on those sources. You're trying to be transparent, remember? Cite your sources! I do it. I think I kind of have to because it's now an unskippable check on the gig making pages? I can't remember, but I'm going to say it is because I'm complaining and nobody's listening anyway.

Fiverr:

My success manager has been rather quiet. Mind you, there's not a whole lot she can say in response to everything I tossed her way, which included loads of opinions taken from this thread and the last (official) thread. Which I sent in response to her email asking if I needed anything "clarified" (on Thurs/Fri). It is Sunday, yes, but she's in TLV, so I know she's working today. Mind you, I do know that staff scatter like surprised birds as soon as legal difficulties are mentioned (c/f the potential IRL illegality of Not Offering Zoom Consults Affecting Your Success Score discriminating against deaf people and others with significant disabilities that might prevent Zooming). As it is, I think we shall never be clarified on that point and that if true, the metric will magically zoom away and it will simply be said that it never existed. Radio silence is so useful for these transparent corporations - much more so than confused attempts at transparency where there appears to have been zero attempt at a staff briefing before launch. Or an incredibly poor attempt. Since it's Sunday and a working day in Israel and the general staff silence continues on these forums, I'm going to say that the company has gone into crisis mode. It is worth noting that this is exactly the kind of thing that the EU's AI act will levy serious GDPR-style enormo-fines upon when it passes into law. I could have told them that for free. Oh wait, I kind of did with my whole post about the EU AI act. As to who to believe, I wouldn't trust Fiverr further than I could throw it at this point - especially after all the doggerel written about transparency when the launch has been anything but.

All this post does is confirm that Fiverr has serious internal communication issues, since half the time, what one success manager says appears to contradict what another says. What hope is there for sellers in getting a clear and transparent answer when Fiverr's own staff don't know what's going on? Again, the problem starts at management.

Doesn't he turn into a cockroach? Oh no, wait, that was Metamorphosis. Perhaps Fiverr should consider rebranding to Kaftkrr? I think it's quite a snappy name. And the domain seems to be free, domain squatters! You could swallow the fees in your offer, but I seem to remember reading a long time ago that pricing is taken into account by the algo (as in: your gig price is $x, but you usually charge $y) and acts correspondingly. That probably hasn't changed much. So you know, you can either get dinged by the old metric or dinged by the value for money metric. But don't worry if you somehow manage to avoid those dings. There are so many other wonderful metrics waiting to ambush you from the shadows!

The Gods have a sense of humor with their timing today...

I'm not accusing you of anything. I'm just telling you what the AI detector says. And yes, I know they're not very good. But that's not my point. My point is that you are saying that you have a no AI at all policy, yet any buyer could use that against you very easily. As for why formatting is important in a gig description, well, have a think. There's a valuable lesson in marketing your services there. You need to sort out the problems in your own gig and approach before you criticize Fiverr's. I have have never purchased a gig on Fiverr and I'm not going to change that record now.

Your issue is that you are a cheap writer in the era of ChatGPT, not Fiverr. Improvise, adapt, overcome. When I ran your SEO gig through an AI detector it was.. not successful, either. The bad formatting also doesn't help your case. That's all I shall say this time, as people tend to call me a Fiverr shill when I give them a free Fiverr Freelancer Trainerrrrrrrrr teaching. Also, this:

Nah, seems to be a glitch (or worse) that is affecting some posters and not letting them post more than 10x a day. Probably a glitch though. Except for the fact it happens every time. Maybe this time will be different - and Fiver may have made a mistake making this a month-long transition, since it means there's a whole month of outrage to go yet. In comparison, previous launches were pretty much overnight. Even when they intro'd the levels system in 2018, it was more or less a case of "oh, we're gonna do things this way starting from January, take 2 months to make sure your metrics are in order". They also didn't communicate on the forum at that time and their sole communication (other than emails, probably) was a blog post that "answered everyone's questions (it didn't). So two tactical errors here from Fiverr: 1) They've primed everyone for a month of outrage 2) Their communication with sellers has always been weak, and this whole exercise is exposing it horribly 3) Someone, somewhere is probably worried about how this will impact their Q4 things next week 4) LOL So yeah, there are some important differences this time. But as voices drop off, so eventually will protest. It's what they may be banking on.

Well, last time I got in trouble with Fiverr and kinda got flagged was in ~2014 when I had a gig that did Amazon reviews. Fiverr told me it wasn't allowed and took it down, so I said OK and probably made another gig. A year-ish later, Amazon sued a whole bunch of Fiverr sellers for the same types of gigs didn't let me sell. I hope my story helps you.

Either A) it is Saturday, the one day of the week where it is the weekend in Israel and the West and staff will return to their usual sky-high levels of transparent engagement tomorrow, or B) They're in crisis mode and not talking to the sellers in case someone says the wrong thing and sparks of a fresh new batch of outrage

I sure hope so, that's a much better metric.

Ich will Deutch sprechen, bitte und danke. Ich kann ein bisschen mehr Deutsch. Ja.

Erm... something something cerveza por favor?

Bom dia!

OTOH, cockroaches (the actual things) are incredibly resilient. I understand that a nuclear blast would just be another day at the beach for them and they can survive without their heads. They could be a remarkable ally in the fight against the Fiverr review system.

I'm sorry, but I do not have enough potatoes for this difficult task.

Fiverr's not listening anyway, don't worry about it.