> I'm sure there are newbies and/or posers of other nationalities as well on freelance websites. I interpreted this differently. The contrast was with super-de

> I'm sure there are newbies and/or posers of other nationalities as well on freelance websites. I interpreted this differently. The contrast was with super-developer-guy, who has a really high reputation and corresponding high rate that the op cannot hope to match. The other extreme is with developers with low reputation and a low rate. Not with developers that are "newbies" or "posers".