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As some of us already "know", Fiverr has decided to let GPT 3.5 and what appears to be a merry band of teenage interns using two-line prompts do most of their outreach work for them. At least that's my impression after these past few months. 

 this new brand of "transparency," back when I talked at length with Fiverr staff in meetings and emails about Fiverr needing to humanize their communication (this was after Fiverr decided to outsource the team responsible for the "Top Client's" feature to someone who didn't know that Coca Cola was an international brand, took arbitrary actions to remove top clients from "pro vetted sellers" and sent us boilerplate yet scary messages about losing access to the future—I'm not joking). 

So here's a thought: How about if Fiverr hired some of their excellent sellers to write the outreach content for them? Instead of churning out uninspired, boilerplate communication that screams beanbag-sitting millennial gone lazy and high on AI? Because the recent stuff you've put out isn't just uncreative—it's a masterclass in mediocrity coming from a platform claiming to be the best at finding the right talent. 

Naturally, that would require Fiverr to actually know who to pick among their "top-rated" and "pro" sellers. Not easy when not even Fiverr seems to know how their own level system works anymore. The irony is laughable. 

Adding insult to injury, you decided to hike the price of Seller Plus for people who thought they had bought into a lifetime discount. And based on some of the responses here on the forum, the only thing worth the 39 bucks is RTO. 

The business idea is sort of genius, though. "Let's create a problem by making sellers feel completely powerless using the platform due to not having any protection against bad buyers, knowing that at any moment, someone can come along and place random orders without asking us first, and then 

And they do it all just weeks after hitting us with a system that caused rage, confusion, and in some of the worst cases, cost people their previously successful businesses. (I'm saying this as someone not negatively impacted by the new system myself... yet). And in my opinion, the system isn't the biggest problem: it's the way they didn't involve their top senior sellers and then hit us with wall upon wall of GPT-generated corporate mumbo-jumbo, and having the guts to call it "transparency". 

Anyway, I digress. My point is that perhaps Fiverr should employ humans to do what humans do best – talking to other humans. You could avoid a lot of unhappy sellers doing so. 😁 

I have a thought... Well, multiple actually. Be prepared for some digressing.

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