alinam22

He said it himself.

I think the problem at hand is that Fiverr Pro is marketed as "vetted professionals". The person that got Pro in this thread did not get vetted at all. It devalues the badge for everyone.

If you go down the profile there are actually around 20 languages listed. Probably trying to game the algorithm.

Yes, that seems to be the case. I used Fiverr Business to check and the profiles there look totally different. It's hard to tell if the Gig itself is Pro when you just get shown the Pro profile front and center.

He also speaks every language on earth 🙂

But the sellers are not verified it seems. For my Pro application I had to send a lot of documents related to my work, as well as my university degree diploma and all my professional certifications. People are now automatically getting the same badge. Also, I just had a look around my category and there a few new Pro sellers with 40-50$ gigs. Seems weird to me to dilute the Pro category so much when they had such a hard stance on only letting 1% of applications through.

They are already featuring the Pro sellers first on the Fiverr Business page. At least for translations, the first few gigs are Pro and are in a different box saying those were hand vetted by Fiverr. After that you get the normal results.