great work!

Sharing on Dribbble itself is surface level, so then the comments follow suit.

You barely scratch the surface of intent, what problems are being solved, how clients shaped the result/progress. It's built for quick, in-progress shots to evoke and capture a quick gut level reaction.

You need to see and know more for a true critique

That's my big gripe with the platform too.

I've actually been toying with the idea of making a design platform where critique is the focus. I figured a model where the comments would have a minimum length (no "Great work!" or "Nice" comments), disable links, and a voting system. That's to say, users could vote on whether they think the critique is actually sound or not; maybe not even show it to the designer who posted the work until after it has decent support?

I think there's a lot of merit to the idea, but I'm struggling in knowing whether people would spend the time to critique other peoples work. Perhaps a "you got to provide a critique to get a critique" thing.

Anyway, any ideas around this would be appreciated! I would actually love to start this!!

If I have a friend on Dribbble and I like his/her work, I'd like to comment and tell them they did a great job. I don't see what's wrong with that.

The worst thing about Dribbble comments is this problem everyone seems to have with congratulating someone. It's my comment. I'm free to tell someone I simply like their work, without offering criticism.

I think the people that are genuinely upset by these kinds of comments should maybe take it on themselves to ignore it if they have such a problem with it. You're not going to stop me congratulating my friends. If you want to see constructive criticism in the comments, then you do that.

PS. The Behance style comments definitely need to stop. Such classless behaviour.

Why not just ignore comments like those? When a shot introduces a new concept or novel approach to a problem, I've found the comments to be more or less engaging, and many times the conversation is taken elsewhere (here, twitter, etc). For people who just want to share progress, what is the negative effect of these spam comments, other than being annoying? If it's feedback you are looking to receive, maybe set up a public doc or Invision where people can leave more in-depth feedback. And if it's feedback you're wanting to give...well, make sure the poster is looking for it and/or consider a more direct approach (twitter?).

The one big problem I do see is that spam comments may unfairly affect the algorithm. Perhaps Dribbble might consider (or perhaps they already have) some method where a comment reported more than x times remains in place but does not calculate in the popularity of a post.

Not that it doesn't exist, or isn't common, but I don't see this often at all. This is behavior more associated with Bechance than Dribbble. I'd hate to see the community degraded by the proliferation of comments like this.

A lot of them uses dribbble auto comment/like bots to get profile visits. I seen "great colors!" on a b/w shot. Under the surface, there's an economy that strives from discovery.

I'll chime in and say that I try to provide meaningful feedback and questions about design choices in my comments and most of the time I get no response or a very vague one (one that didn't even bother to try and understand my comment) so yes, there is room for improvement

I think it's common knowledge that dribbble isn the place to go for a detailed design critique.

However I don't think we should get worked up about it, or blame dribbble, just use a different platform to ask for feedback, DN for example...

It's unfortunate, but you rarely see true feedback on Dribbble shots. Typically, people post comments for exposure. It's seldom that I see "it looks great, but why did you do X instead of Y?" In many cases I don't think there's enough context to analyze a shot, but I really don't think it would make a difference with the existing meta.

I talked to Dan, the founder of Dribbble, at a meet up a few years ago in DC...

I said to him that I wanted to be on Dribbble so that I would become a better designer. Once I got on it, I didn't get any critiques and my designs only got better with my own experimentation.

I thought maybe having the ability to add write a "for their eyes only" comment with markdown such as a hashtag would be something I would love to use. No one wants to openly bash a design, but I think if we had the ability to do something like...

#feedback Your line height and margin could use some work, and I'm not sure about that font type for legibility reasons.

Only the owner of the shot seeing that sentence... Who knows, maybe that would do the trick. It would also be easy to implement and iterate on.

This drives me nuts, it's all over Behance as well. Published a few projects over the weekend and got comments exactly along these lines.

I see them as pretty rude really, they're trying to use your work to advertise themselves. As a rule, I look at the work of anybody who follows / likes / comments on my work, except for these people, I ignore them!

Ultimately the fault lies with Dribbble not taking any action against this.

If someone spams your shot’s comments, you can delete their comment. That seems reasonable.

There are alternatives such as http://www.draftr.xyz/. BUT it instead has problem with discoverability, sharing (you still have to manually share a link around instead of automatically popping up in peoples feeds), and presentation of your work, IMHO.

I recognise these types of comments from Behance where they're all over, but I think this might be the first one I've seen from dribbble. I'm hoping it won't become a trend, but to me it seems you're generalising the whole dribbble comment section by nitpicking a comment. Sure there's no real feedback there either, but that's not what we use dribbble for so it's okay.

Why isn't Dribbble commenting based on annotations? Similar to SoundCloud, you'll just click on a part of the graphic and add a comment related to that part. That way commenting will be much more focused on certain parts in the design instead of overal flattery.

Take my like!

Enlightme with a way to stop people using the comments the way they want.

Same thing happens a lot more on Behance

I think it's pretty amazing that any internet community comments section can be so overwhelmingly positive and polite.

I'm just going to comment like that on every post starting today: ok very nice, now look at me me ME.

SMooth

I hope the Behance mentality doesn't come to Dribbble. Then I'm outta there.

In my mind, Dribbble is better used as a marketing platform than a place to communally work on a design critique. I think most people use it as such and that's why you only see quick and superficial engagements rather than thoughtful critique and drill-downs. Typically whenever I try to provide helpful feedback or better understand how the designer got to the solution they did I'm more often met with defensive responses or ignored.

I agree it's generally shallow, but if you look hard every once in awhile people post constructive criticism and help each other out. Be the change you want to see and take a sec to post something meaningful in the community. Show others how it's done :)

Harsh.

One spammer on a post 3 months ago and a whole commenting framework sucks.

I've always found Dribbble to be something with 2 layers - the vacuous, self initiated UI redesigns of stuff that will never go live and then the actual shots of real work in progress.

You get out what you put in though. On the occasions I've wanted constructive feedback I've made an effort to post a full shot with context of what it's about, what I'm trying to achieve and what sort of feedback I'd like and had some really great help from comments.

It's the same on Behance, and I asked them several times to simply disable links, since nobody ever uses them for anything else, but it's not happening.