Anyone use Elance?

[samthaman]

thoughts? likes dislikes? i heard about it from soul_skier and it seemed like an interesting way to make a little extra cash from time to time.

[samthaman]

noone in the padded room has an opinion, i'm honestly shocked.

[rideit]

whathefuckisit?

[snowful]

whathefuckisit?

Maybe a women's specific ski made in Slovenia?

[Chainsaw_Willie]

Hard to have an opinion on something I've never heard of before.

A quick google search reveals there is an elance.com website, which is down right at the moment. Other links the search brought up lead me to believe it is a type of freelance writing/programming/high tech work. Freelance contracting, in other words.

Is that right? If so, I still have no opinion.

[splat]

Anything like an avalance?

cue the tiger

[samthaman]

sorry i thought it was a little more well known. its a website where you can either bid for freelance work or put up freelance work for bid. www.elance.com i think

[Steven S. Dallas]

I assumed it was a jousting supplies website.

[DBdude]

If it is a web site where you bid on work, then my feedback is don't bother, somebody in a second or third world nation will submit a bid for way less then you would.

[rideit]

If it is a web site where you bid on work, then my feedback is don't bother, somebody in a second or third world nation will submit a bid for way less then you would.

If the dollar keeps sliding, that may not be quite true.

[Craven Morehead]

I assumed it was a jousting supplies website.

good one.......

or maybe for those big pussey zits

[gonzo]

odesk is more hourly. elance is more project based. you can definitely find solid buyers and sellers on both...and not so good ones.

[neck beard]

I hadn't heard of these before. So I went and checked oDesk. You can get paid to post on forums and blogs. You can get paid to write shit about stuff for some website, like articles on shopping or truck driving. Or "re-wording" existing articles.

Thoughts that hit me:

1. why do I write so much on forums and my blog out of interest for the topic when I could be getting paid to write about other stuff. Leading me to:

2. quality content contribution is valuable to a website/forum, so any forums mods that wont give a bit of quid quo pro can fuck off (I don't have TGR in mind).

3. a lot of what's written on the internet is contrived and generated for cash. Makes me glad I only look at a small bunch of websites, because I'm guessing most are full of crap and designed to make money for someone. I had no idea just how many people pump out shallow contrived sites on popular topics and pay people to create the content... just to earn advertising dollars.

4. I now know where all the spam comes from. Read some of the job ads looking for people to place product and website names into forums and blogs.

Seeing as I have all time and no job, I might get in on this tasteless scam.