In the upper left section of your author area, there is a thing called Notifications. If you have no notifications, it will say that (except the word Notifications will be in orange and the fonts are different and it has a gif of a paperclip next to it and I don't know how to recreate that here ):
Things listed under Notifications are things you do not necessarily get emailed about, such as team invitations. If you have a team invitation, it is a good idea to go ahead and look at it and make a decision. Either accept the invitation or fill out the invitation (they sometimes want a writing sample -- actually, more often than not they want this) or go ahead and decline if you are just not interested.
If you don't take action about the item, it will continue to tell you that you have a team invitation and if you then get an actual new team invitation, you won't know that because your notification status will not change and you will not get an email about it. It will just perpetually "You've been invited to a client's exclusive Team."
The Notifications area will also let you know if you have internal messages. You will get an email about this and the Notifications area can tell you how many messages you have. I always go click on all of them promptly and see what they are about. But, unlike with internal messages, Team invites do not get emailed to you and I don't think they update to indicate that you now have multiple invitations. This is possibly a thing that Textbroker could do better. But, hey, if you actually want to know if you are invited to a new team, it takes little time or effort to address this yourself and stay on top of it.
I am on dozens of teams. Only a handful very regularly provide work. So, the clients are not that different from the authors in terms of using the system intermittently, as they see fit. Being on more teams is a good thing. In most cases, there is no additional burden of expectation on the author in terms of how much to work or when.
In a few cases, they do explicitly say you need to do X number of articles per week to remain on the team, or you need to complete articles within 2 hours of pulling them or whatever. The instructions are typically a little more heavy handed, but since you use the same instructions over and over, it isn't necessarily that burdensome.
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Things listed under Notifications are things you do not necessarily get emailed about, such as team invitations. If you have a team invitation, it is a good idea to go ahead and look at it and make a decision. Either accept the invitation or fill out the invitation (they sometimes want a writing sample -- actually, more often than not they want this) or go ahead and decline if you are just not interested.
If you don't take action about the item, it will continue to tell you that you have a team invitation and if you then get an actual new team invitation, you won't know that because your notification status will not change and you will not get an email about it. It will just perpetually "You've been invited to a client's exclusive Team."
The Notifications area will also let you know if you have internal messages. You will get an email about this and the Notifications area can tell you how many messages you have. I always go click on all of them promptly and see what they are about. But, unlike with internal messages, Team invites do not get emailed to you and I don't think they update to indicate that you now have multiple invitations. This is possibly a thing that Textbroker could do better. But, hey, if you actually want to know if you are invited to a new team, it takes little time or effort to address this yourself and stay on top of it.
I am on dozens of teams. Only a handful very regularly provide work. So, the clients are not that different from the authors in terms of using the system intermittently, as they see fit. Being on more teams is a good thing. In most cases, there is no additional burden of expectation on the author in terms of how much to work or when.
In a few cases, they do explicitly say you need to do X number of articles per week to remain on the team, or you need to complete articles within 2 hours of pulling them or whatever. The instructions are typically a little more heavy handed, but since you use the same instructions over and over, it isn't necessarily that burdensome.
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