u/curiousinshanghai

Asked in r/Beijing if anyone knew a translator and i guess that question is beyond the pale, as they banned me.

"Hello, You have been permanently banned from participating in /r/beijing because your post violates this community's rules."

Reddit really is insane. The rules OR r/BEIJING say "No repetitive or low-effort posts" but there isn't a day goes by without someone asking for a VPN recommendation or how they can buy tickets to the Palace Museum or whether this Chinese guy/girl REALLY cares for me, because they haven't messaged me in 7 minutes, but I ask for a translator and I'm banned? Permanently?

God almighty, it's such a joke.

Edit: Irrespective of whether you agree with me or not -and I appreciate all the efforts that you Redditors have taken to educate me and my Chinese friend- but the fact remains that I can say 'Chinaman' on Reddit but I cannot say 'Translator'.

How do you guys sleep at night, knowing that such injustice exists in the world? :)

Can anyone recommend a translator (English/Chinese)?

Been using Fiverr for about a year now. I need to hire web developer to build a website for me and and it's been an absolute train wreck ...

Freelancers claiming they built a website but when I do a basic background check it's a complete lie, but when I inform Fiverr they basically say, "nothing to do with us."

I share my documents with a Freelancer and they say, "Yea, no problem I can build that in a day/week/month" and after they're finished about 10% they claim it's finished and expect payment so I have to go through weeks of back and forth with Fiverr and their useless freelancers just to prove that they haven't done the work that was clearly laid out in the brief.

Customer service is a joke: I submit a question and instead of assigning one person to the case it'll be a different person who responds to every message, and none of them care enough to actually read through the old messages, so they'll ask you the same inane, pointless questions over and over again.

I could go on, but I'm getting annoyed just thinking about their incompetence and I really have had enough. I assumed that after spending five years writing the material for the site that hiring someone to convert it into web pages would be the easy bit, but in fact it's been way way WAY more difficult.

So: what are the alternatives to Fiverr?

PS: not sure why the only tags I can add are NSFW or brand Affiliate, as neither is true, but I had to click one, so there we go.

How can I check if my work permit has been cancelled?