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Thanks! It's definitely a valid point. We do get a lot of made up, totally BS data from people doing exactly what you're suggesting. It's usually obvious though and we filter it out. Nothing gets added to the primary DB without us looking at it first. If it looks anomalous, we'll deny it. You don't have to add a rate though, you can still view 99% of the data without doing that. Things we show to everyone, regardless if they added a rate or not:
- Title, location, hourly rate, skills, industry, org size.
- Role based search Things that are locked only to people that made submissions:
- Additional notes by submitters, which only about 10% of submissions have
- Charts, which are really just formatted versions of the already available data
- Location, skill based search
- Project based rates (we will eventually unlock this similar to hourly rates, but for now, we don't have enough data and are really in collection mode) We are actively working on a feature for verified rates though, where we validate that the submitter actually earned the rate they claimed by requiring additional information. As a side bit, I encourage people - if you don't have a rate to submit, just submit a rate with total default values and leave a comment saying "dummy rate". We will filter it out and you'll still get access to everything. |