These are things all professional designer are going to face through the course of their careers. That is not say the readers of Dezeen should not be more responsible when making comments and do their best to be constructive and not negative; for ultimately it’s that the point of design no matter what field one is practicing in. Try to expand the minds of everyone and teach people to be more excepting of new and different concepts that could be better for society.

So far my experience with Dezeen has been nothing but positive and I believe I have provided great support to some designers that will surely be well known in the near future. Thank you Dezeen for expanding minds. Please, leave the comments the way they are and hopefully we will learn for ourselves how to deal with them and each other in a positive manner.

By the other hand, I find negative comments really useful ! I was reading articles here all day, and to be honest, most of the negative comments helped me have a better judgement over the qualities of the projects. weird ? Not all of them are fair, but I can judge about them on my own…I do not need censorship to remove them for me…

if you feel compelled to drop a flaming bag of shit on the doorstep of a designer you disagree with, man up and stand there until they answer the door instead of running away like a little child and hiding behind a bush!

I would like to see registered feedback and a rating scheme would add additional interest…

for those of us that design or create art for a living…would you verbally attack a client if they didn’t like the work you were submitting? no.

would your client attack your character or personality if they didn’t like your work? no.

would you try to sway their opinion to align with your vision though intelligent discussion? yes.

it’s called professionalism.

criticism is an everyday part of any professional designer/architect/artists world. it’s 100% acceptable to express your opinion as to why you like or dislike something. don’t just post “booooring” or “this is terrible”…try to express your distaste with meaningful relevant thought. it’s pretty easy to say “that’s crap”. it takes a brain to express why you don’t like it and make a valid point.

That said, I would like to address the issue: should Dezeen block negative comments?
Most of us would assume in good faith that open blogs are a form of democratic space. And therefore, in principle, they establish a positive contribution to the exchange of ideas. But is it, really?
Maybe we should confront ourselves with the facts of this virtual reality. In many cases, this openness promotes the degradation of the debate, favouring the expression of many forms of intellectual and moral mediocrity.
Many commentators express some sort of scandal towards moderated blogs. So here’s a new kind of pseudo-democrat. Someone who jumps into somebody else’s space – because this is a space that someone else has opened to them – and claims the right to launch the most bitter and aggressive words. So how do we ignore the fact that, under the puritan claim of defending democracy, small dictatorial minds are proliferating that have lost the most plain – and enjoyable – pleasure of thinking?
Many seem to forget that the exercise of any right contains the responsibility, individual and collective, towards others. So what’s at stake here isn’t the right to express diversified points of view, the right to disagree. The issue is, paraphrasing Rebecca Blood, that there’s a big difference between stating that “this project fails for this and that reason” and saying that “this project sucks”, or even worse, “this architect/designer sucks”.