It was pointed out upthread that the first version said 5 years and then 7 years and asked people to draw conclusions from it. People were drawing the conclusion that the original poster had updated their posting to keep with the amount of time passed. I just pointed out that if that were the case then they did not just spend a week indoors after 7 years, they did that 2 years ago when they did the original posting.

Probably to clarify they matter they should have said - 2 years ago my life was nearly destroyed by Freelancer.com, et c. etc. but they did not, hence the whole thing seems a bit off, perhaps because they are not very good at constructing a narrative in English.

I had supposed this point very clear from what I posted before, but it appears not, this saddens me as it may mean I am not very good at constructing a narrative in English either.

Of course there are any number of ludicrous ideas one might entertain as to why the posting was updated in the manner it was - perhaps after losing their source of income after 5 years it all ended up well and they continued with that source of income for two more years until the exact same thing happened to them in which case fool me once, fool me twice applies.