Slashdot Mirror
RentACoder Losing Street Cred?
Itninja writes, "Having used RAC several times in the past (as a buyer), I was shocked by a recent experience. I did a bit of looking around to see if I was the only one having problems with Rent-A-Coder. Apparently, I'm not." From the article: "This unfairness of RAC fees motivates the majority of coders to negotiate payment outside the scope of RAC which amounts to you and coder getting a better deal. For example, I have several coders that I fully trust willing to work on projects on a monthly basis because it is easier for him to deal with established clients than to have to bid for projects all the time. It saves me time and trouble because I can work with a person that I trust and he knows what is expected." A comment to this posting links a discussion of RAC at Google Groups, and there the service has its defenders. What has your experience of RAC been, either as a buyer or as a coder?
That statement presumes that it had street cred in the first place. Unless the street you're talking about is in some small Eastern European city or Chennai( among others ). I think most everyone here with a string of concurrently firing neurons understands "street cred" to mean some street in North America. Which after all, is the vast majority of posters here are commenting about. So..stick to the point.
Let's recap:
A) Two clowns are cat fighting about some insanely ridiculous sweatshop of a clearing house called RAC ( I will not lower myself to call it by it's given name ).
B) "Street Cred" means North American street credibility with respect to the individuals living, breathing and otherwise trying to make a living on said continent.
C) No conclusions necessary. RAC isn't a flawed concept, it's application to the marketplace, however, is completely corrupt.