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Re:Upwork Freelancers Who Want Guaranteed Pay Have to Opt in... by ggg9990 on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @07:42PM (#17711943)
Yes but Upwork wants a metric that doesn’t need a software engineer to adjudicate. If you say “this XHMTL validator works as specified because RFC 1913 was never formally accepted” it takes someone with a clue to figure out what you mean. Upwork would rather say “you types all day, you get paid.”
Re:Upwork Freelancers Who Want Guaranteed Pay Have to Opt in... by sdegutis on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @08:18PM (#17712146)
Still very easy for people to bypass. Just pushes the adjudication into the "interpret screenshot" layer. The screenshot can be a completely valid Photoshop mockup that looks exactly like the client's specifications for the Rails app they hired you for, showing that you pretended to do the work.
Re:Upwork Freelancers Who Want Guaranteed Pay Have to Opt in... by sjburt on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @08:40PM (#17712245)
I'm guessing that that ploy would work once or twice before you got pushed off the platform anyway. Same goes for a client that regularly claims the work is incomplete.