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Originally Posted by UKBusinessLive

S. Safety - are you 100% certain that your happy to trust this person with your personal information and logins.

O. Organise - Before you engage full steam ahead, check that you have details about the coder, .... Referances, and recomendations. A little bit of organising here will prevent hic ups later.

Isn't this exactly why a Coder rating system does? It adds references and recommendations. It gives extra credence to coders.

When you post a coding job here, you get contacted by all kinds of people. Some seem really interesting to work with, but many others seem like shady scams to me. I may very well be wrong. But I received a lot of offers from people without any reference or even posts here, who did not seem to need more information about the project but wanted money upfront.

Basically the only way to check a coder out is to review how good his/her work posted here is, and how well that is supported. That does limit the number of coders to choose from substantially.