How to end a contract without providing any feedback?

[app-ninja]

If you look at the attached screenshot, I am required to provide some sort of rating anytime I end a contract. This should not be required, or there should be an option to provide "none of the above", or similiar.

"How likely are you to recommend this client to a friend or a colleague?"

What if I don't have any friends or colleague's? I don't want to provide "1", that would seem negative, I don't want to provide "10", as that would seem I really like this client, I need the option "refuse to answer", or similiar...

"Please provide a rating for every category"

I don't always want to provide a public rating for a client, this affects their ratings. The client never has to provide this for freelancers, why do we freelancers have to provide this to clients?

[flexin777]

It is impossible, I think.

[ladyelexia]

Ask the client to end the contract, that way you don't have to leave a review from your end. If you want to end it, there is no way to avoid leaving both private and public feedback. 

[feed_my_eyes]

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If you look at the attached screenshot, I am required to provide some sort of rating anytime I end a contract. This should not be required, or there should be an option to provide "none of the above", or similiar.

"How likely are you to recommend this client to a friend or a colleague?"

What if I don't have any friends or colleague's? I don't want to provide "1", that would seem negative, I don't want to provide "10", as that would seem I really like this client, I need the option "refuse to answer", or similiar...

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You don't literally have to recommend the client to anyone; it's not a contractual obligation. If they were a good client, give them a 10, if they were a bad client, give them a 1. If they were average, give them something in between. No need to overthink it - this is private feedback that clients never see anyway.

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I don't always want to provide a public rating for a client, this affects their ratings. The client never has to provide this for freelancers, why do we freelancers have to provide this to clients?

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Clients do have to provide ratings whenever they end a contract. Just give them an honest score. Feedback doesn't affect clients nearly as much as it does freelancers; there are some clients with really horrible reviews and they'll still get 50 bids whenever they post a new project. I doubt that most of them even notice or care about their ratings; you're mostly doing it to help other freelancers decide whether they want to work with a client or not.