Marcus
Dezeen”

As the representative of a site, frequented by professionals I feel this to be a little immature. Asides from this, great coverage, shame about the moderation though.

Best

I believe in freedom of speech with a limit. You don’t go out and say bad things to people and not expect consequences. Here, you take advantages of internet anonymity and spit whatever you want to here, just because there is no consequence, and no responsibility. Most of the time it’s just something to compensate your deep complexes of not being recognized or actually achieve anything like the featured designers.

So, Dezeen, keep up the good work. I may have used inappropriate words and may do again, so moderate me if you have to, cuz I’m not an Ota-ku who come back and get pissed if my opinion isn’t there.

May 12th, 2009 at 7:44 am
Thank you Gabriel! We work really hard to provide all this free information to people and when people post abusive comments if feels like inviting people to your house and then watching them smash the furniture. We don’t want those kind of people here any more.

could you be any more precious? if it wasnt for your readers you wouldnt have a website, and as for the drama queen smashing furniture comment bad analogy, the internet is a public place, expect to get mugged once in a while.

You accuse people of coming here and behaving badly then turn around and attack those who disagree with your methods, and when they leave because they are offended you attack them some more behind their back. I guess its okay for the host to attack the guests, just because its your house, right?

It is your business, this, and you are entitled to run it as an adoration society for all the designers who so go out of their way to allow you to provide us with all of this free information, just dont expect all to follow suit. Yours is simply the (what should become known as the) Blair- BAE logic defense (clumsy in name, clumsy in execution); your “partners” have threatened one way or another, to stop cooperating with you because of their displeasure at being criticised/flamed/etc by bloody civilians and you have decided to sacrifice a conerstone of good design (and indeed, life) practice – feedback, in order to secure their enduring cooperation.

Do us all a favour we can all agree on and remove all traces of the word design from your baby and replace it with propaganda.

Okay, i am glad to have gotten that off my chest even if i will end up in the recycle bin with all of the others of a similar view, bet you we dont all see eye to eye though.

There is nothing wrong with negative comments, in fact it is a very constructive process, as long as they are not poisonous and hurtful.

I personally would not like to be censored by “The Man/Men” at Dezeen as I would feel it to be a very undemocratic process. I would much rather be censored by my peers. Most of us are decent and honorable people, we should be able to call things out ourselves and then, if need be, ask for things to be deleted( in extreme cases). We are not children. I think we should be able to police ourselves.

It is not JUST about the variety of different comments, but also an informal voting process which to me is also the fascinating part of an open discussion. I want to know:

“HOW MANY PEOPLE like this or HOW MANY PEOPLE dislike this”

and

“HOW MANY PEOPLE like THAT and not THIS!”

ETC……..

Please do not spoil this freedom for us!

FORUMS need to be FREE and self-regulating!

Peace and Love,

J

Marcus
Dezeen

It is very cynical to demand freedom for commenting on information that is being delivered to us FOR FREE (and with great quality for the most part), but evade any liability whatsoever for the standards demanded. If we as visitors and contributors to Dezeen wish for a high-standard, free and plural, design blog, we should take some of that responsibility in our hands.

If the Dezeen team have felt the need for introducing comment moderation and censorship, it is ONLY because we as commentators have failed to do our part in this collective project. Dezeen should not feel the need for such restrictions, because we should know better. Therefore, I ask the Dezeen team to give us a second chance, and I ask the Dezeen community (which is all of us on THIS side of the keyboard) to begin with establishing the high standards ourselves.

No one is storming off, or sulking for the matter. I just prefer not to support businesses who are more concerned with berating their customers and censoring them than they are with building positive relationships.

Looks like a few other people are a bit disappointed in the way you are interacting as well.
You might want to think about that. Take a look at yourself.

Like I said, come to Baltimore… we can “meet in the street”. We’ll see who the hypocrite is.