Jayce is a professional designer and that's the reason why he easily got your point about design plagiarism.
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Getting merits is always a special thing for anyone but keep in mind that you will only get trust when you will win someone's heart. So in comparison with that losing a contest isn't a big thing.
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You can easily get some positive trust by taking loans or using lending service but when someone give you that for your contribution or good works then its definitely gonna give special feelings to anyone.
Agreed to everything you've said. But for me, trading is a common way to gain green trust, telling others that you are capable of meeting the deadline and willing to do as what it was stated on your deal. And I've seen a lot of trusted users that either trusted by loans or trusted because of his integrity explicitly shown in the forum, but I guess it was my first time seeing a green trust stating a simple reason due to relatable ideology.
I do not understand why you would be so happy to have received merits and positive feedback since you have been a member of this forum for more than 2 years and you should know that receiving positive feedback does not mean that the person has put you on their list of trust. you were only evaluated in a certain situation, which in this case would be your point of view on "Cheating in Logo contest ...", there are many of members of this forum who had a many of positive feedbacks and then started to receive a lot of negative feedbacks, no let yourself be fooled by these merits and positive feedback, just continue to follow your ideology and work for the community
Then maybe you cannot understand the struggle of designers as well. But let me tell you this, I've been designing for years and learning through certain experiences but no one respected how hard it was to design something that would represent a business and/or just design something that would please the vision of the people. And guess what, people would rather tease you on why should I insist a bigger fee, saying "it is JUST SIMPLE and EASY". All of such horrible experiences would be disregarded due to the fact that I'd rather take a little money to live than to refuse and be hungry. Hence, a simple wave of respect sums up all of the hard work I've made. Is being thankful an awkward nor a bad thing to do?
You deserve it man, as all of your points are true. And also the struggle being a designer which not everyone appreciates our work and complaining on our service cost, that's real.
Well please note the feedback is adjustable. If in future you do a wrong thing in this forum, I surely will remove mine and even put negative. Though, we have to be grateful with any positive feedback we have, no matter if he is a DT user or not. Keep up your great work and good luck mate.
Thanks man! I've been planning to post some designs and be a designer in here as well. Would also make free designs soon in avatars.