What's the status of Lingbay at the moment?
Of all the jobs that were recently posted, not that many (if any) got completed. At least, judging by the feedback indicators of users and the project deadlines (all long overdue with no feedback in sight).
Now that the risk involved for buyers is obvious, what's next for prevention of fake and/or incompetent translators? How will the site proceed in assuring buyers they will get anything at all for their money - let alone quality and not a google-translated piece of text?
Can we, the users who actually still exist, help out somehow? For example, teaming up with a respectable community which could benefit from Lingbay's services might help. Or an actual check to see if the person behind the name really exists (for example - send a mail to the user through the post with an activation code - when they verify their account that way, we can be sure they're real and serious enough). Or a verification through a bank account - charge a user somewhere between $1 and $2 and let them verify their account by entering the exact amount, like moneybookers and paypal do it.
Anything that would help the site "automatically" weed out the non-serious takers would help things a lot. Anyone else have an opinion on this?
Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.
i think your openion is just prefect
waelsaeed: i think your openion is just prefect
Thanks.
And, no offense, but I think you should remove "English" from your skills.
You have 4 errors in that one sentence.
So, should we assume Lingbay is dead?
According to this:
Hi Swader, we are very much alive. Currently we are having to take on freelance work while spending every second dollar earned on Lingbay! We are also participating in events looking for investors or Lingbay buyers and the interest is big.
Please don't re-post my network messages in public for the future.
Lingbay Admin - Always looking for Chinese translators, Arabic translators, Italian translators, French translators, Dutch translators, German translators, Danish translators, Japanese translators, etc.
Roger that, thanks for the heads up.
Sorry about the re-post, figured it's ok since it's, well, public.
Any chance of some heads up regarding job/people filtering? How about teaming up with an epic community of scientists in dire need of translations and proofreadings? As their software engineer, I might be able to nudge my company's pyramid top in Lingbay's general direction in order to form a proper "alliance" with back-links and all that. Such a teamup would benefit the scientists greatly, and verified freelancers too (I could never suggest the customers they give their work to some random guys with bad English even in their profiles).
Maybe there's been some progress regarding the money holding service in terms of credits or some such? Premium accounts even, used to verify freelancers?
Anyway, please let us know.
Hi Swader, sorry for the lack of information.
We would be very much interested in facilitating a group of scientists with translations and proofreadings. Do give them my contact details if they need our service. Im not sure what they would benefit from back-links on Lingbay?
Improvements to Lingbay are pushed online gradually. It is now possible through Paypal to hold payments. We are planning to add this feature. We will begin to moderate job postings in the next minor release - some people actually think they can showcase their job history by posting a job!
We also need to do more on the validation of freelancer skills.
Best,Anders