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Hi. It would be nice if you could forward this to the people who have to do with 

Spam has been getting awful since months already, but now it's reached a new high (low, really). 

 just reacting to spam. I just scrolled a bit to count 

over 30 spam messages within the last 60 minutes

, I gave up trying to scroll and count for the last 24 hours. If it goes on like this, I may well spend over a whole hour now daily just to react to *spam*. 

I pretty much can't type a single message to an actual customer, or even react to a spam message or two, without hearing the "Ping!" of a new spam message coming in, once, twice, thrice. 

The spam / Response Rate system may have worked somewhat well in the past, but, please, rethink it. It's putting an undue strain on sellers, not only having to spend so much time on spam, but additionally being penalized over the Response Rate (with the potential of losing their seller level, too) if from dozens of spam messages daily, somehow one didn't get reacted to in the exact right way. 

The sense of the Response Rate is that sellers reply to 

, not to spammers, scammers, and beggars (yes, quite a few of the newer batches of spam right out ask not for a job (misreading Gigs for Buyer Requests), but beg for money), right? I do, always, even though now it's getting increasingly hard to spot that 1 actual potential buyer message in the sea of spam you wake up to and have to wade through, reacting in the exactly right manner. 

There must be a better solution, really. At the least, please tell support to simply reset the Response Rate of sellers who have proven to be reliable, when it gets affected by a spam message - one of hundreds they need to spend their time on which should be used for communication with 

, on their orders, etc. I think it's unfair of Fiverr to penalize its sellers for spam that Fiverr lets through to them, and moreover, it simply doesn't make 

And please, rethink the registration process. 

What are all those people who don't even understand enough English to understand what a Gig is, doing in my inbox, asking me to give them work, while being glaringly and utterly not qualified to do said job, and what are those people begging for money doing there? That needs to be handled on registration. Tell them what a Gig is, tell them that Fiverr is a business, not a begging site, tell them to not message other sellers for jobs, make them fill out a multiple choice quiz, limit the number of sellers who may register for the translation category, I don't know, but something needs to be done. This is way out of hand now. 

Among today's first batch of spam, there was even one that read: "

I am a footballer looking for a team pls". 

Help! Who opened the flood gates? The SPAM!

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