flitto.comReviews of flitto.com

Being a native italian speaker I've been using the Flitto app last year to do translations and see if I could actually make some money. Result: "Too fast! You're clearly a bot so we'll be suspending your account for 2 weeks 😋". Complained to support since I believe I'm not a bot, and they seemed to be the bots to me since they did nothing but repeat their guidelines about not allowing bots. I redeemed my accumulated points (yes, you don't get actual money but "points", and when you want to convert them into money you'll have to pay a fee as well 🙂), pissed off I just left Flitto alone and moved on with my life. This year I get an email inviting me to a New Arcade project on the Flitto website. Again I tried to use it to see if the situation changed. For a few times it worked and I did my share of underpaid work, despite the interface making it extremely difficult for me. Of course I get a rejected assignment saying "we detected machine translation" so no money for that one. Since I kinda got tired of translating out of context sentences and being accused of being a bot or a machine I decided to apply for the Pro 1:1 translation. Boy was that a mistake. Banned again because they detected machine translation, now they dont even allow me to login and claim my payments. They provide screenshot of their funny monitoring program where they check what percentage of your translation is the same as other online automatic translators, and that's their excuse to ban me. First of all machine translations shouldn't be the enemy of a human translator, they should be a tool to speed up the process. The platform doesn't see it that way so it doesn't allow it, alright. The least they could do though is having the basic understanding that this isnt 15 years ago and my human translation is most likely gonna look similar to a machine translation since they evolved and got pretty accurate at providing optimal contextualized translations. The thing you have to focus on doing while translating for Flitto isn't to provide the best translation you can, it's actually the opposite. You have to make sure you use obscure and uncommon wording and synonyms just to make sure you pass their dumbass criteria. A machine telling a human to not be a machine, pretty hilarious. Flitto isn't something you use if you're a translator, it's something you're forced to use if you dont have a degree and can't access other translation gig websites. I don't recommend it to anyone who knows their worth.

The management is terrible. Several colleagues have been dismissed by the company without reasonable motives and even with accusations of plagiarism or unfair work without evidence. Furthermore, whenever they decide you have (again, without proof) violated their guidelines and terms of use, they just retain all your gains (which are "paid" in points, not in actual currency). This basically makes you work for free until they decide monocratically whether you are worth the payment or not. The management team should be more transparent whenever they decided to dismiss an employer, in addition to granting at least a percentage of their work, not retaining all of the points (again, this makes us work for free). Not to mention that the system of points itself is problematic and very underpaid in the translation industry.

Flitto is a Korea-based, "global crowdsourcing translation platform, where you can request translations as you need or become a translator if you can speak more than one language." Being bilingual in German and English, I signed up as a translator and went through two rounds of (unpaid) tests. Then I signed up for my first translation job, which was just a bunch of separate lines (ten, to be precise). I submitted - and IMMEDIATELY got a "response", i.e. some bot seemingly default-responded: "Did not comply with the guide Entered an answer that is completely irrelevant to the question Too many incorrect answers Copied machine translation word for word" So, here's the thing: 1) there was nothing to "comply with" - those were ten separate lines without much complexity. Don't play the "guide" card; 2) At NO point did I provide an "answer " (i.e. provide a translation) that was irrelevant to the question/source text - let alone "completely"! I am a professional translator and know how to do my job! (besides: get your jargon right - translators are no school kids, we provide translations, not "answers"; 3) "Too many incorrect answers" - I'd venture to claim: no; and 4) "Copied machine translation word for word" - HOW DARE YOU!?? I translated manually and without any help from a "machine"!!! Get your facts straight before such accusations! And then it is of course impossible to get in touch with any human. Translators: Do NOT work with them! It is a waste of time. They have no clue!