Announcing New Perks and Requirements for our Top Rated Community

[Jennifer M]

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@Virginia F wrote:

Can you let us know how (or if) it worked, Jennifer?

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Will report back! I just emailed them, so we'll see what happens. 

[Atifa T]

Hi Lena will removing no feedback jobs give any benefit  to the freelancer.

[Dawn H]

Lena,

I've sent three requests thus far asking for a job rating to be removed as a perk of a Top-Rated contractor, and I have yet to hear anything from the Upwork department who handles this.  How would I follow up and make sure they've received my request?  When I send a message to Support, I always receive a reply that the request has been received and that it is being worked on, but with this, I've received nothing after three messages to the appropriate e-mail address.

Thanks!

Dawn Hamilton

[Katrina B]

Hi Dawn,

I'm sorry for the delay in getting back to you! We're working through all the requests right now.

I'll respond to yours in just a minute.

Thanks!

Katrina

[Alex W]

Thanks

[Joao A]

I like the feature of being able to remove a job from profile/jss calculations for each 10 jobs you do each 3 months.

I think adding the requirement of having Top Rated Score 13 of 16 weeks to have the badge seems perfectly fine. Unfortunately, I think more requirments should be added to ensure even more the quality of the freelancers that deserve/have this badge.

[Katrina B]

Hi Joao, 

Thank you for your feedback!

We're open to suggestions.  What other criteria would you like to see added to the requirements?

Katrina

[Joao A]

Hi Katrina,

First of all thanks for noticing my opinion.

Regarding other criterias that would help to define even better the Top Rated program I would go probably for more earnings per year (3k+ $ for example) and the average of the tests a freelancer did (in his area of expertise) should be really high. Something between 4.00~4.20

Being Top Rated means being at the top, not just being "good enough".

Best Regards,

João almeida

[Giorgi N]

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@Joao A wrote:

Hi Katrina,

First of all thanks for noticing my opinion.

Regarding other criterias that would help to define even better the Top Rated program I would go probably for more earnings per year (3k+ $ for example) and the average of the tests a freelancer did (in his area of expertise) should be really high. Something between 4.00~4.20

Being Top Rated means being at the top, not just being "good enough".

Best Regards,

João almeida

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I think that is not a good idea at all. For instance I tried to pass English test 10 times and you can kill me but I can not manage to go above 3.8. Do you think this should prevent me getting top rated badge? 

[Joao A]

Hi Giorgi, please read carrefully what I've said.

'test in your area of expertise'.

So if you are doing Translations to/from English or you are a writer that means you don't deserve to be Top Rated at all.