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lenasemenkova

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  1. I always loved how in attempt to make the lettering look Cyrillic, people would invert the "R". Because they think that "Я" also reads as "R", it's just turned the other way. And it's actually reads "ya" so that "яesist" across your bicep doesn't really work, my dear comrade.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. We don't need it. The easier it is to post - the easier it is for people to spam the forum endlessly.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. I love passport/ID photos as profile pictures. Everybody looks like they were taken hostage and are recording a proof-of-life message.
  11. and my family members have/had covid. Which is shocking and so unlike other forum users' situation.
  12. It goes more like this, in my experience: “I’m a buyer. I ordered 1 gig, then something really terrible happened. Something so dark and unforgivable that it pains me greatly to think about it. Pains me so much that I won’t give away any details and just dispense some loud words into the atmosphere, like “thief”, “criminal”, “machiavellian genius”. It has to be as dramatic as possible. Especially if the entire situation was a misunderstanding, the order was $5 and I got refunded in the end. I’ll close with (just like I’ve opened with) a warning to avoid using this site, announce my departure to that other site we are not allowed to mention (even though it’s more confusing to use) and mention making a post about this on reddit. Reddit will hear about this, that’s for sure.” My close second favourite is: “Hello, I am a new seller who isn’t qualified giving any advice about anything on the platform. Except, maybe, registering an account and sneaky ways of stealing someone’s gig description or gig image without getting caught. But we’re not going to talk about that. We’re going to talk how you, dear buyer, should hire me for any and all the jobs you might have. You should hire me because of reasons I’m not going to disclose since I don’t have any. And because I’m a good person.” It's going to turn into a cesspool of those "Hire me, I'm a good person" posts in seconds. No point in having such a category.
  13. You have to pay for it monthly, btw.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. I thought it was going to be “develop a skill, any skill at all.” But taking English classes can also help.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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).
  21. 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.
  22. 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. :)
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. It’s pretty frustrating considering that CS for sure knows that orders get “stuck” if you leave them in revision indefinitely. If the buyer eventually shows up and another delivery is made, the dang thing won’t autocomplete and CS would offer you to either cancel or hope that the buyer closes it. Which they won’t because an unresponsive buyer is the main reason we find ourselves in these situations to begin with.
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