Accepting proofreading jobs

To me, this, written by a self-proclaimed "good translator" does require some proof-reading, indeed: "As far as I know you generally all proofreading jobs come as the second half of ultra jobs."

christophe, in answer to your comment above, students learn - but a bad translator may just be a bad translator, end of story. Perhaps translators should have a variable fee depending on translation rating? Only...who gets to do the rating?

The number of the PRO translator does appear if you look in the history BEFORE you accept the job. Once you accept the job, the system wipes all history (even customer comments - which is not great and myGengo Support already knows about this).
I was only asking this question as I wanted to know if other proofreaders felt the same or whether it was just me.

An equal share is one way to tackle it but my question was whether there are any proofreaders currently out there who do not accept proofreading jobs when they feel it's not worthwhile? Even if you were to be paid the same, fixing a translation that needs a lot of rewriting is much harder than doing it from scratch, so I just wondered if anyone felt a bit frustrated by this? This question applies to proofreading in general, not just within myGengo.

Yes, I agree. I guess the question is whether myGengo (or any other translation company) would want the overhead of making a final decision or mediating should any difference of opinion arise between translator and proofreader. It's one thing to do spot checks for quality control (which I believe myGengo does) to fit in with the company's work schedule, but it's something else to have to deal with (potentially) many translators pointing out mistakes in other people's work. At the moment I get the feeling that some translators see ULTRA jobs as an easy target in a "well, any errors will be fixed by someone else anyway" kind of way. I have sometimes found chunks of text missing from the translations, potentially missed out deliberately in the knowledge that the proofreader will pick it up (although it may have also been due to a genuine mistake).
I just find this an interesting question as it seems to be that in ULTRA jobs, the translator gets most of the credit (i.e. higher pay) but if any problems occur then it's the proofreader who gets the bad reputation and the complaints from the customer.
I have done a few proofreading jobs so far but within those I can only remember one (that was longer than 3 sentences) where only a few corrections were required. Nowadays, I very rarely touch proofreading jobs unless the translator is someone who happens to be in my very personal "yes, great" list. (And for anyone who thinks I'm raising this question to show how "good" I am, please, this is all just in my opinion. I believe you can always find translators who are "better" and "worse" than you and it is all very subjective.)