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Re:Upwork is Changing Again and What We Can Do About It by ccozan on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @10:46AM (#11814716)
You are right, but the same can be done over current Upwork; once I trust a freelancer, I can deal outside the Upwork range, using a normal contract.

However, the most freelancers get short jobs and many clients, as in the original article is specified, so this just simply works.

EDIT: it seems that as currently implemented, even Upwork is bumping in a search the ones with many hours/money earned. So cheating would be a bad decision, since it may drastically affect your visibility on the site

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Re:Upwork is Changing Again and What We Can Do About It by mooreds on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @11:13AM (#11814971)
> So cheating would be a bad decision, since it may drastically affect your visibility on the site.

And may be one of the primary reasons for this "feature". I don't blame them, they are a marketplace and should encourage transactions on their platform.

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Re:Upwork is Changing Again and What We Can Do About It by skeeper on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @11:38AM (#11815247)
Encouraging transactions on their platform benefits the people too, since the platform offers some degree of protection to them.
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