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> I don't see this table for

dmitry — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:14:45 +0000

> I don't see this table for some reason

Fixed!

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fdmitriyev — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 23:57:26 +0000

I don't see this table for some reason

abathia — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 01:56:28 +0000

Thanks

smahajan — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:09:22 +0000

Thanks Josh

Thank you for resolving this

andemkiv — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:03:56 +0000

Thank you for resolving this issue.

It's been less than 24 hours

jpittenger — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:58:00 +0000

Sandeep, it's been less than 24 hours since the release. As Josh explained, please give it time to update.

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hello

smahajan — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:45:27 +0000

It doesn't seem to have changed. What is this bug and why it is not getting resolved? Maybe the unfair competition is here to last for few more weeks.

Bug fix going out tomorrow

jbreinlinger — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:00:48 +0000

All,

There was a bug discovered related to the size of the provider company in question. We had a limit on the number of records returned initially set to 1,000 and the affiliate had passed that number of records creating a problem in the calculations.

It has been addressed and will go live with tomorrow's release at around 6 pm PST. It may take up to 24 hours for all scores to be reset to the appropriate level. (the correct score is not 4.53)

Apologies for the bug and for the unfair competition in the marketplace for a week. I'm glad that all of you are watching closely.

Thanks,

Josh Breinlinger

oDesk

weekend over

smahajan — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:58:04 +0000

The weekend is over and so is Monday.

Calculations

smahajan — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:17:44 +0000

The calculations involved in the feedback are :-

The average feedback (which is shown)=Total feedback of all assignments/Total earning *100

In this case the total number of hours is 200000

Assuming USD 12 (a low rate per hour) the total earnings come to 2400000

For an average feedback of 4.05=Total feedback/2400000*100

Total feedback=4.05*2400000/100=97200

Now if average feedback=4.53

the total feedback comes to 4.53*2400000/100=108720

The change in total feedback = 108720-97200=11520

Which means a whopping 2304 assignments ending with a feedback of 5.0 to take the average feedback from 4.05 to 4.53 over 200000 hours.

So, what has happened is totally unbelievable as NO COMPANY can earn feedback of 5 over 2304 assignments in one day.

That means there is certainly something wrong here.

I sent out questions

jpittenger — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 22:25:39 +0000

I sent out questions yesterday to find out what happened - but it is only Sunday afternoon in California right now. And this isn't the sort of thing that I expect them to give up their weekend to work on. I ask that everyone please be patient until they've had a chance to investigate.

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It is hard to believe

andemkiv — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:00:37 +0000

Jacqui, The global feedback indeed was changed to 4.53 yesterday. But I agree with Sandeep that it looks very unrealistic. In the matter of days the feedback went from 4.05 (where it stayed for a long time) to 5.00, and then to 4.53 (just enough to display 5 stars). In theory in order to average from 4.05 to 4.53 on 100,000 hours, you will need another 100,000 hours with perfect 5.0 feedback. I doubt that this is possible to achieve in several days. It takes months for us to move the feedback by 0.01 and usually you have a greater probability to average down than to average up.

If this is a bug, why did it affect only one company? Also on the chart here it changed from 5.00 (yesterday) to 4.53 (today). Does it mean that their average feedback for the last 30 days was 4.53?

I feel the oDesk community deserves some explanation here.

Amazing

smahajan — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 06:09:46 +0000

The most amazing thing is that they have moved from 4.05 to 4.53 (5 on oConomy in one day) . This takes a lot of doing with over 200000 hrs at stake. At that point moving up by .01 in feedback itself takes a lot of doing. Other providers will surely agree on this as well. Please clarify what is going on here.

I'll stand by my answer

jpittenger — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 03:45:00 +0000

The smartdata profile clearly shows that their global cumulative feedback score is 4.53 (this is the number that appears in search results as well), and yet on this chart it shows 5. So it makes sense that this chart shows the average of the last 30 days, not the global cumulative feedback score. That, or the bug got fixed on the search results and not here yet.

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Wrong

smahajan — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 15:02:33 +0000

Jaqui, You are wrong. Even though oConomy shows the hours billed during the last 30 days, the feedback is for all hours logged on oDesk for a provider. To verify this you just need to login and check the profile of the concerned affiliate and you will see that the feed back is same there too. In fact, oConomy picks up the feedback score from the affiliate profile. I have been in touch with oDesk and it has been accepted as a bug. However, this was on Thursday 14th August and the bug has not been rectified so far. This is amazing as by the normally high standards oDesk has they don't take such a long time to rectify bugs. I also hope such bugs happen to the rest of us too . I just hope it is rectified immediately.

Top Provider Companies

jbreinlinger — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:01:58 +0000

Shows provider companies with at least a 4.0 weighted average feedback score ranked by recent hours worked (Total Last 30 Days).