I participated my first contest at this site, and got a ban! The company wrote to me kindly: 'too many of your entries do not execute basic design principles such as typography, visual hierarchy, composition and color... As a result, we will put your account on hold after 30 days '. I visited the page they linked to, but still curious: what exactly they didn't like? Such mysterious. And the main question: how well they do with a math? 'Too many', after I participated in the one contest? Hem...I also liked this part: 'We recognize that design is subjective, but...' Oh, guys, that's not just subjective. This is very subjective. And it's fine. So why don't you just allow clients who lunched a contest to choose the winner instead of trying to judge by yourself? That's what clients there for – to review and to choose, right?.. That was my first contest, hello! Just imagine, how great we all would be walking, if parent in childhood were talking smth like: 'Your first steps are so bad. Ban for six months for walking!'But don't conclude too quickly. They were nice enough to let me get back... one day: 'This is not a permanent hold and we encourage you to continue building your skills. We will host our an open application period for account reactivation once a year'. Oh, thank you very much. I'll be definitely waiting for this great chance which I can get once a year. Yeah. Actually, I will not. Do they seriously think that if I build my skills to an advanced level I'll be making design on a platform where I'm not guaranteed to be paid for a spent time and where I can be banned, if support consider my design not good enough? I'll pass. So, I evaluate the platform as not the beginner friendly. Thanks god I' self-confident enough to go through this, but just imagine how such experience can shake people who are not that self-confident. But the platform has the blog where are some articles which I found useful. The second star is for it.
