I feel ya! I do voice over work and sometimes my clients take several days to get back to me after I initially submit the project (on time). So, as a professional courtesy to the agency I am working with, I extend the due date so they have time to confer with their clients. 90% of the time, they don't even need a revision. I just didn't want to pressure them to get back to me "before the gig was up". It turns out that this is perceived as a negative and I should have foreseen this possibility. Riiiiight. I wish I had known this up front before they destroyed me in the algorithm. One of my gigs used to be at the top of the search, now it is the very last one using those particular key words. I noticed the drop off in December. I went from 2 to 3 gigs per week to nothing (except my repeat clients).
My theory: Somebody got a new position (V.P. perhaps) and decided to revamp the old system to prove their worth. What Fiverr should have done if they really wanted to change their system, was to change it slowly; one piece at a time. After a certain amount of time, the whole system would have changed and we would have only had to pivot a little bit at a time. We are trying to run businesses here and this derails everything. Thanks for listening to my rant.
