u/Training_Industry490

A friend of mine has a question regarding Upwork account policies and wanted to understand if this situation is considered risky or not.

Several years ago, he started creating an Upwork account but never completed the profile setup. The account was never identity verified, never connected to a bank account, and never used for client work or submitting proposals.

Later on, he created and actively used a different account with his real identity and information.

The old unfinished account still exists because he never properly deleted it, and he only remembered it recently after seeing old emails about connects.

Would this kind of abandoned/incomplete account create issues from a Trust & Safety perspective even if it was never operational or verified?

Just trying to understand how Upwork generally views this type of scenario.

I’ve been thinking about some features that could seriously improve the job feed experience on Upwork, especially for freelancers who spend hours filtering through low-quality or irrelevant posts.

A few ideas:

• The ability to block a client permanently from appearing in your feed. For example, if a client repeatedly posts vague jobs, unrealistic budgets, spammy listings, or you simply had a bad experience working with them before, you could block them and never see their jobs again.
• Better country filtering. Right now filtering feels limited. It would be useful to exclude specific countries from the feed instead of only searching broadly. Example: “show me all jobs except from these countries.” That would make the feed much cleaner and more relevant depending on timezone, payment preferences, language, or market focus.

These kinds of filters would save freelancers a lot of time and improve the overall quality of job searching on the platform.

What other feed improvements do you think Upwork should add?

I hate both my father and my sister. They abused me in ways that drained me mentally and emotionally for years. I don’t even have the energy to explain everything anymore because I'm exhausted from constantly trying to fix situations that were never my responsibility in the first place.

The only reason I still treat them with basic humanity is because of my fear of Allah. If I judged them only based on how they treated me, I honestly feel they don’t deserve anything from me.

What scares me most is the future. I’m afraid they’ll continue hurting my family or interfering in my life. I can probably cut contact with my sister, but my father is harder to escape from because he’ll still be involved in things like my khotba and other family matters.

I carry a lot of anger and hatred inside me, and I don’t know how to deal with it in a healthy way without letting it consume me. I don’t want to become bitter or destructive, but I also can’t pretend everything is okay anymore.

How do you deal with this kind of hatred toward people who are supposed to be your family?