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So I just received an email from Fiverr, I assume everyone will get it sooner rather than later. There are some interesting changes to the review system, what do you think about it? 

They are reverting from emojis back to stars, which definitely makes the platform feel and appear more professional. I was not a fan of emojis myself, either. 

Public scores for our gigs will only reflect the average score for the past 2 years. So even if you have 5000 reviews that on average had 5.0 stars (for a gig that has been around since 2015), the public score for that gig will only take into account your average review score for the past 2 years. Not sure how I feel about this, because that means all those old reviews are neglected, even if they were very accurate. Fiverr says they want to show the average, recent quality of the seller. I guess it's yet another way for them to eliminate meksells that tried to curate reviews in the past few years. 

The rating breakdown also seems to be updated. Which means there are new/updated questions. 

And this is another big one. Buyers now have the option to edit reviews for up to 14 days after they leave a review. However, it's either 14 days or until the seller leaves their own review. That means, if you don't want your buyer to randomly change their review, you may want to share your own review and not wait. 

Personally, I think these changes are fine. Showing just the average score for the past 2 years instead of the lifetime gig score is a bummer, but it also allows you to improve your general gig score if you had better performance in the past 2 years. Allowing buyers to edit reviews is a double-edged sword in my book, but the fact that you can stop any edits by sharing your review as a seller seems great. I am just thinking about certain abusive buyers that might try to manipulate the system, however it's fine if you can share your own review and not have the review editable. Some buyers make a mistake, they add the wrong number of stars, they might also have grammar errors in their review, so having a way to modify that does come in handy. I assume it's due to people leaving the wrong number of emoji/stars. 

What do you guys think about these changes? 

Fiverr just updated the rating system, how do you feel about it?

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