[Q] what's wrong with hire a freelancer sf ?

I was testing the jobs posted on hire a freelancer and noticed these

* Almost 90% of the texts by the sellers are ai generated

* 90% of the buyers are newbies

* No one is answering you after replying to a thread. It seems they actually don't need the service, it's just for likes and fake reputation.


Im never going to make a reply for newbies requests haha

tomguis said:

I was testing the jobs posted on hire a freelancer and noticed these

* Almost 90% of the texts by the sellers are ai generated

* 90% of the buyers are newbies

* No one is answering you after replying to a thread. It seems they actually don't need the service, it's just for likes and fake reputation.


Im never going to make a reply for newbies requests haha

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Ultimately, someone observed it.

Almost every seller is trying to increase messages and reaction score

tomguis said:

I was testing the jobs posted on hire a freelancer and noticed these

* Almost 90% of the texts by the sellers are ai generated

* 90% of the buyers are newbies

* No one is answering you after replying to a thread. It seems they actually don't need the service, it's just for likes and fake reputation.


Im never going to make a reply for newbies requests haha

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This is exactly why I dont respond to most of the jobs

Wow, I’m going to look at messages from sellers in a whole new light from now on.

vedaj said:

It's funny how fake bot accounts spam their way into wtb/haf and nobody cares to stop them
Meanwhile real buyers get warnings and are not able to post due to 15 posts restriction
Ever since I joined this place I am only keeping this forum to surf around or read old threads
I have no interested in "contributing" in a place where it's obvious some really shady stuff is going on
But please don't think we are stupid
We can all see what's going on
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These all are fake that's 99% can be false, because buyers also buy with just 1 post.

Monkey D. Luffy said:

This is exactly why I dont respond to most of the jobs

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You keeping yourself out of competition then


Only bad thing about the whole scenario is, people who are doing casino SEO (is just a kind of reference) are intentionally posting for this keyword #1 post, for this #1 position in Turkey though everyone knows that #1 position is possible only for 1 person not for all.
If I will say in one post I will make #1 and in other too that I will make you #1 for same niche, same keywords
Then, how authentic I am that's big question. A real genuine buyer can expect to be #1 but he knows it is dead hard if the same seller is committing same thing to multiple other people.
Shocking is if this is happening it is totally anonymous, or is being allowed.

As buyers are allowed to report those spammy sellers. You , as a seller can report a thread/account if you believe that is spamming around the forum.
We will take a look.

the funniest ones are those posting URGENT, then disappearing for a week when people reply lol. but i wouldn't write off all newbies, everyone has to start somewhere.

Proxellor said:

the funniest ones are those posting URGENT, then disappearing for a week when people reply lol. but i wouldn't write off all newbies, everyone has to start somewhere.

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They maybe found what they were looking for.
Because of this and for many other reasons BHW has an auto-close threads feature but you can always report threads that the OP has disappeared and we will look forward.

Just hit report if you see anything suspicious. Always far more helpful to the community and staff than making threads like this,