CloudCrowd is a little bit like Amazon's Mechanical Turk. You complete small, menial tasks for small, insignificant pay. The benefit of working for them is that you get paid daily, so if you need a couple of bucks in Paypal on the double, it might be worth it. That was the appeal for me, but as I continued working there, I realized that I couldn't have been more wrong about my assessment of them.

At first, the work was simple enough. I got an editor credential almost immediately. Usually, if I was working on CloudCrowd, it was because I was uninterested in putting the effort into profitable work. However, I quickly realized that this site was far from worth my time.

First off, the content you are editing there consists of poorly written, largely plagiarized, and sometimes patently offensive school papers. You're getting paid around $1.60 for editing a couple of paragraphs, which wouldn't be a big deal if it weren't for the fact that you functionally need to rewrite them entirely to complete the task.

Second, there is zero consistency in expectations. I realized this quite clearly when reviewing edited documents. I rejected several on the basis of errors, only to have my evaluation rejected with zero explanation, despite my documentation of these errors with my task submission.

Finally, there is no transparency involved in any of this nonsense. My credibility got tanked after several of my assignments were rejected without explanation. Within 24 hours, my account had been suspended. You know what I say? Good riddance.

In other words, I strongly urge you to avoid CloudCrowd. They may pay reliably, but for the headache they provide, it ain't worth the change.

*As an update to this post, and for a case study of excellent freelancer relations, see my updated review here