Boosted proposal not boosted?

[b3a569df]

Hi

Can someone please explain what this means?

Thanks

[williamtcooper]

That is extremely interesting and I have never seen before.

It appears they are doing some spilt testing.

[celgins]

This appears to be part of Upwork's placebo auctions. See Boosted Proposal Placebo Auctions.

[khushbu_gohil]

I never observed this as well

[LuiggiR]

Hi Esther,

Thank you for reaching out to us. To help continually measure how proposal boosting is helpful to users, a very small percentage of auctions for boosted proposals will be selected at random to be boosted proposal placebo auctions. This means that on these job posts, the boost feature will not actually boost a freelancer’s proposal on the client’s list, and we won’t take the freelancer’s boosted Connects. All proposals will still be shown to the client but ranked organically.

You can find more information in this help article.