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Did anyone make it to the part when it’s explained how making the forum unreadable for everyone else makes one a successful seller? Or does it remain a trade secret? Oh the intrigue, the innuendos.

I’m barely even on the forum and I’m moving through the ranks and getting badges by serial likers mindlessly hearting all of my comments they can find. It’s wonderful, 5*, 100% would recommend.

I used to work with language schools 15-20 years ago and the success rates with English specifically were pretty spectacular (and that’s with people who were mostly unfamiliar with Latin alphabet before they started). Getting rid of the iron curtain and putting McDonalds all over the place helped, of course.

I once left a 10% tip in an Indian restaurant in Hamburg and the waiter ran after us down the street with a bill. He didn’t speak English, we didn’t speak German so we just stared at each other for a while and then he left. I’m still to this day intrigued by what went wrong. Did he think that 10% was not enough? Was he offended that I tipped at all? Was the bill wrong? Did he want to ask something unrelated and just happened to have a bill in his hand? I have so many questions. Buyers want to tip often enough. They ask how to do it, how can they tip more, etc. Might be not your experience but the feature is up for those who do want to leave a tip. I would rewrite the message and leave the “customary” out of it, though. I think Uber just has “leave a tip” and that’s it. It’s easy to ignore and I don’t feel forced to overpay.

Once we were walking past a loud construction site and my sister said: “Oh look, your favourite band is playing." I “only” met Shirley Manson at a festival because I was with someone who had to interview her. They said I could ask her a question and I just babbled some nonsense about how I wanted to grow up to be like her and how fantastic her hair looked in person. She was very nice despite my outburst. I've never met a person "from my playlist" before or after that.

We don't need it. The easier it is to post - the easier it is for people to spam the forum endlessly.

Industrial and noise to an extent. I like me some weird sounds and/or a minimalist melody. I have *all* of his albums. German electronics's just the best. I may or may not have cried when I heard "Ein schöner Tag" live.

The answer for now is I don’t know. I signed up last month to get some fresh perspective about my product and my process. Had a call and while the advice, in retrospect, was pretty obvious, some of it was too obvious for me to see or pay attention to on my own. I haven’t implemented any of the suggestions yet but the call definitely got me thinking and it’s good. We agreed to discuss the progress in a month or two which seems like a reasonable time to see the results. The only criticism I have is that the call felt a bit rushed. And with more and more people signing up, who knows if the “premium” level of support is possible to maintain. We’ll have to see about that.

You have to pay for it monthly, btw.

I just tell them that unfortunately, “more work” is not contractually binding in any way and we move on. I explode deep inside, though. It’s so annoying.

Breaking Bad and Sons of Anarchy. They are the only ones I’ve watched till the end and more than once. I love me some “criminal with a soul” kind of story where everybody suffers and dies and it’s satisfying. I’m a bit disappointed that El Camino got made, to be honest. It wasn’t necessary. The same way it’s not necessary to drag SoA characters into “Mayans”. Those were the good endings, no need to elaborate. That’s the main issue with tv shows these days. With seasons getting added or cancelled at random, no one can properly structure or finish the story anymore. Chernobyl was good. I thought they’d make a fetishising Hollywood caricature out of it (both the event and the overall look/aesthetic) but I was blown away with how respectful it turned out to be. Didn’t expect it at all. I also loved Waco if we're talking about miniseries. Watched it in one sitting, couldn't tear myself away.

I thought it was going to be “develop a skill, any skill at all.” But taking English classes can also help.

It's like a game at this point. How many of the points from your list will any given post hit. There is a most recently updated post in Super Bowl category of all places where a person congratulates themselves with reaching the Explorer rank. Both in the post title and then in a separate message to themselves. The person has zero sales and is followed by 4 people. One of the 4 is a guy who has liked what feels like every comment I’ve ever made on the forum. I bet he’ll ❤️ this one as well.

The only way I can explain all this is that the new forum needed more engagement from unique users so it wouldn’t consistently look like it’s 10 people talking among themselves and it would give off this vibe of “vibrant international community”. This is why spammy behaviour is encouraged (badges that people grind for by shamelessly reposting the same comment over and over, spam that is being tolerated, posts that would be gone in minutes on the old forum staying up). I hope it’s growing pains, it’s temporary and maybe fiverr is just trying different things. It’s a lot of new faces, yes, but the new faces seem to be the most prolific in the mystic art of copy/paste and the creative interpretations of the word “congratulations”. I’ve never had to plow through the same comment posted by the same person 8 times in a row or have someone quoting pieces of my own comment back at me without adding anything on the old forum.

You can cancel it and see how it goes. Preferably via customer support as they are sometimes lenient to newbies. A single 1* review will bury your profile anyway. I think new sellers deserve a second chance unless they are scammers or their behaviour is extremely unprofessional.

Mine are 1100x720 px (which is twice as big as a recommended size). You can probably triple it, too. I haven't tried. You have to consider redesigning the preview pics if they look unreadable at 550x370 px, however. It’s a recommended size, most buyers will see the image at 550x370 px or smaller as they keep scrolling. Try using .PNG format (if you don’t use it already).

I have it and also have two 3* reviews in total (business relationships gone bad over time). Both of them have “This buyer came back!” badge next to it and I snort every time I see it. One of them came back minutes away from me blocking him so it all has a bit of an uncomfortable vibe, Stephen King-style. “He kept coming back and she couldn't stop him". 🙂 In any case, I understand the badge. I don’t understand the entire page dedicated to it. You’ll just increase the number of sellers spamming their buyers and begging for more orders.

Is the purpose of this page to simply inform me that my buyers are coming back? Because... I know that. The names, the rough percentage, the importance and all that. I thought for a second that those who’d reach a certain threshold would be getting a bonus of some sort. :)

You can get yourself in serious trouble for sending out misleading custom offers. If a buyer just shows up and offers you a higher price, you should inform them that your actual price for the job is X (according to the gig description). If they say: “It’s fine, I still want to pay a higher price, your work is worth it” (sometimes they do say that), then you can charge them that higher amount they want to pay.

I know, right. It’s like the universe will get upset with me and consider me ungrateful. 🙂 There is a different kind of excitement in being able to deal with everything fiverr (or any other customer, for the matter) throws at you when you’re building a profile. As long as the task itself doesn’t give you chest pains, it’s all good. 🙂 I did have to remove all the mentions of retouching from my page pretty quickly, though, because the requests weren’t even CSI-level. People just wanted pure magic, especially in 2015 when the phone cameras were much worse than they are now.

Only because you can do it, it doesn't mean you should. I used to have such a hard time saying "no" to projects. Yes, I'll design you a map. Yes, I'll put together a brochure. Yes, I'll retouch *all* of your photos. I'll resent every second of the process but I'll do it. Part of it is greed, part of it is fear that no work will ever come again. With a pinch of professional pride thrown in, I think.

Oh. My dear friend Malcolm. I just reported him. (Sorry, I didn't notice it was an old post).

Someone once sent me “The seller is unable to do this job” (I think it’s worded like that) cancellation request 20 minutes after placing the order. With a comment: “You haven’t given me confidence that you can do it.” Their last message to me via inbox before the order was placed was: “I’m so excited to work with you!” Who knows what happened in those 20 minutes but the person seemed to be adamant to conduct the cancellation in a way that would be the most punishing to me. The project was right up my alley and I’ve stated twice that I could do it and that it looked interesting. They looked like a legitimate buyer, too, not a fabled evil competitor wanting to tank my profile. Some people are just weird. I contacted CS, they cancelled the order without it affecting my stats. I agree that you should also try and do that. It’s obvious from the messages that despite having such a tight deadline the person is just running around wasting everybody’s time.

This thread is absolutely wonderful. Back in the days of the old forum, the mantra was “spamming = more sales”. After the introduction of the badges, it switched to “spamming = being a valuable member of community = TRS”.

Back in the day I had to design a collection of badges for a forum for little girls (a community around a magazine for little girls). To quote my old boss, “Whatever, just do a bunch of them, they love it. They LOVE IT.” Which, I’ve assumed, was his way to attempt and increase forum participation to have some cool stats and screenshots for the annual powerpoint for the board of directors. How did you come to this bizarre conclusion? Who told you this?