Almost exactly a month ago, we launched our sponsorship feature. Designed to help our community know who to trust when doing business with each other, it has been an experiment in building a large-scale network of trusted workers.
Thanks to the C&P community, we’ve received a lot of feedback about how to improve sponsorships. Today we’re announcing the following changes:
- Both sponsored and unsponsored users can make offers on “I want” listings
- Both sponsored and unsponsored users can create “I will” listings
- We’ve added a new “invite” option to allow you to directly sponsor a new worker on C&P. Look for it in the user menu in the upper right.
We hope this will enable new workers to prove themselves to the community and build a strong C&P reputation. Let’s keep growing this community and please keep the feedback coming!
Thank you so much for listening to the community on this matter – I cannot express how glad I am that you’ve made this choice.
Atlast… people are saved.
In other words “sponsorship” was a completely disaster and is now largely irrelevant. Because what it said to users was “go away! we don’t want you.” If C&P is serious about protecting users, consider using escrow payment system so BOTH employers + workers are protected.
I agree with the escrow payment system. It works well for other online job listing sites. It might also offer some PR benefits to C&P if they (you) are able to set it up properly.