Never Focus Too Much On Customer Feedback When Hiring A Writer...

ryanman · 10-01-2009, 12:26 PM

I have no idea how so many writers get great feedback scores on several freelancing sites and even on a lot of forums when their quality isn't even close to what most of the reviews state.

I would say never put too much weight on previous customer feedback and always test the writer out with small trial projects. He/She might have great reviews but that doesn't mean they're truly providing great quality.

dave147 · 10-01-2009, 01:32 PM

I think it does give an indication of how good the work may be though

Alexa Smith · 10-01-2009, 01:37 PM

Call me cynical, but I suspect that many such comments have emanated as the result of an "articles in exchange for favourable comments" deal of some kind.

IdeaLady · 10-01-2009, 01:44 PM

One big problem is that many people would not recognize quality if it walked up and bit 'em on the behind. I see so many people, online and offline, who are borderline-illiterate. How are those people going to judge writers?

Oh, that's a tip: If the feedback is littered with spelling and grammar errors, the reviewer doesn't have a clue what quality writing is.

achivement84 · 10-01-2009, 01:46 PM

I agree that quality is subjective , also beside reviewing the spelling and grammer we should also refer to the quality of content and it it`s in context or not.I think you can give your proximate conclusion from the past work of a certain writer.

ryanman · 10-01-2009, 01:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

Call me cynical, but I suspect that many such comments have emanated as the result of an "articles in exchange for favourable comments" deal of some kind.

Yup! You are spot on...But another thing I don't get is some writers have above 200 reviews on freelancing sites. When you get articles from them they're full of grammatical mistakes and half of the article doesn't even talk about what it needs to talk about.

I had this writer once whose samples seemed great and so did his reviews. I asked him to write on "4 ways to lose weight"...Yet he just wrote about how many people in america are obese and how it's becoming a global problem now.

He didn't even discuss the solution. And then ended up arguing with me because I gave him 2 stars on quality lol.

Ken Strong · 10-01-2009, 02:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

Call me cynical, but I suspect that many such comments have emanated as the result of an "articles in exchange for favourable comments" deal of some kind.

But how would crappy articles benefit the commenter in such an exchange?

writermommy6 · 10-01-2009, 02:44 PM

What's sad is the really good writers that get lost among the really awful ones.

ryanman · 10-01-2009, 02:54 PM

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Originally Posted by writermommy6

What's sad is the really good writers that get lost among the really awful ones.

Yes and no...I actually don't even read their feedback anymore. I just give them a shot with a small project...If it matches my needs...Then I give them bigger projects...If not I move on.

Robin E. Anderson · 10-01-2009, 03:37 PM

I would agree with the posters above who recommend grammar and spelling as a baseline.

Bev Clement · 10-02-2009, 06:03 AM

People often leave feedback, and I personally think they haven't read the articles supplied. I have seen people putting a sample here and it might not be the worse, but it isn't good. Yet, you have a lot of newbies saying, "Great article" or "Wonderful article" and you wonder if they understand what the word really means.

I have read articles where people say they are top quality, and they haven't been through the spellchecker never mind anything else. The only thing these articles are good for is one thing. To send you to sleep, they are so boring it is unbelievable.

I was reading a lot of articles yesterday, and the person said they could write 20 or 30 a day. Sure they could. They took a basic article and then spun the title and some of the article. Yes, their articles made sense, they weren't boring, but open 10 of them, and you could see they were all the same article written in a slightly different way.

The other problem isn't so much the way the article is written but the lack of research. Too many people only use article directories for their research, and that is the worse advice being given today.

The other bad advice is to find a top article from google and then rewrite it. That's not how to become a good writer. This is why so much rubbish is around, and why people object to paying more, because these articles will never give a good ROI.

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