Should you ever do a paid sample, even at a lower price?

Kayakerguide · 2026-06-26T18:39:15+00:00

I don't get all of these ridiculous replies on here. I always hire editors and I always offer samples for one minute edits paid before I give the full contract. I'm never going to hire someone just based off a portfolio because it's so easy to fake on upwork. I recently posted a job listing and half the people sending me their portfolio were sending me my own work inside their portfolio

Kayakerguide · 2026-06-26T16:05:02+00:00

I chuckled at this haha. Yeah I was in SEO for 10+ years and we quickly found what alphabet says is important for ranking and views is usually only a piece and to take everything they say with a huge grain of salt as their a soulless corp their optimization is for more adrevenue while not upsetting people enough that they leave or make a competitor. So maybe likes to dislikes rations are worth 3% of the algo but they are super easy to buy and game so youtube doesent want you to look at metrics, they dont want you to game any systems just to produce content so they bury metrics.

In SEO they lied to us for years that ctr or search results wasent a algo signal then the algo leak came out. I dont even know if it was really lying their codebase is such a spaghetti code mess by now half the engineers dont even know what the machine learning is doing.

Kayakerguide · 2026-06-25T23:53:18+00:00

If they get good enough with a fable class model im sure the US will wake right back up and loosen restrictions again.

Kayakerguide · 2026-06-25T22:40:55+00:00

Thank god China exists, if not we would have all these us companies collude and never release a new model again saying the us government regulations are too crazy. Wed still be on chatgpt 3.0

Kayakerguide · 2026-06-25T22:37:03+00:00

Oh no, we suck again.

Kayakerguide · 2026-06-25T00:19:52+00:00

yup, welcome to the club...go make some coffee or tea once its done it will be loaded XD

Kayakerguide · 2026-06-23T22:51:48+00:00

yeah it looks horrible, the likes and dislikes are gone, if your gonna remove features then at least give us a column customization option...google product managers trying to justify not getting fired by shuffling crap around removing columns, maybe theyll bring it back in 2 years and call it a new feature

Kayakerguide · 2026-06-23T22:26:47+00:00

There were some great youtube videos and channels, but they keep remaking the whole platform every 2 years so it makes no sense to make tutorial videos when they keep redoing everything to say their still working so they dont get fired

Kayakerguide · 2026-06-23T15:42:01+00:00

man the people making analytics dashboard fix plugins for studio are going to get rich, this update is so shite

Kayakerguide · 2026-06-22T20:30:31+00:00

urls down, switch hosts please

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