Translator education: a possible solution to despicable job offers

Madeleine Chevassus wrote:

Hi all,

Why not open a new Proz forum specialized for ridiculous job offers: very low rates, impossible rushs and also what I call "blind" offers: the outsourcer gives only his name but no country, no address, no website etc. Well noway to be a minimum confident.

We should have the right to give the name of these outsourcers, otherwise the forum would have no effect.

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This method is already in place on a similar platform.

There is also an Unacceptable Translation Rates Naming & Shaming Group on LinkedIn.

Madeleine

[Edited at 2014-08-16 21:31 GMT]

Giovanni Guarnieri MITI, MIL wrote:

systems that encourage bidding wars (or reverse auctions) should be made illegal, imo. It's degrading for our profession and give a false impression of what the rates really are. Yes, seeing the same low rates day in and day out will convince many that they are the norm. They are not. Business transactions should be private, not public. I don't see why clients should have an easy life, lazily posting their requests on the platform, at the detriment of an entire profession. Let's ban it. ProZ is great for many other things. But the job board and the KudoZ point-based system should be deleted from the face of the earth...

Lisa Simpson, MCIL MITI wrote:



...but they'll never do it for fear of losing traffic.