RANT!

I like RAVES!

Mike... do you mean the comments... or the acid laser light all night parties?

Rant: A small ant; contraction for runt ant or r'ant.

the 20k some users of #quirky dont have much to rant about. that bodes well.

There's a bit of ranting on the Cloak page... anyone have an update on progress?

where i can i leave the profanity
j/k

Rant! Spent a good hour on writing comments, voting and rating products. Log back in a few hours later, both votes and ratings are gone. Again :-(

And after posting the rant above my ratings and votes appear again. :-(

@Walton: Hey-send the Cloaker's over hear to rant where they can be analyzed by professionals. I mean while Clinton is here.

I count five ID submissions for the split handle tea mug showing photos or drawings of popular products already on the market. I assume the submitter used them to show what inspired their idea, or as an example of what's possible.

My rant - "Great look..." comments on those submissions.

C'mon quirkers, pay attention.

Commentators, if a submission includes a "possibilities" picture of a product already on the market, don't decide you like the submission because of how it looks. (Of course you like how it looks, that's why it's a popular product already on the market.) Focus on the submission's innovative ideas (usually a function).

Submitters, if you get comments that indicate people are thinking the picture you included is your own design, leave a comment that plainly corrects their misunderstanding.

I only say this 'cause I think the last thing you want to do is leave (or get) a, "Great look, best design - Voted!" comment on a submission with a picture pasted from the MOMA gift shop, for example.

Yep. And all the newbies are thinking WOW what a great idea........VOTED...:)

Totally agree! Plagiarism is a very bad way to make friends and gain influence. If you want to use someone elses product as an illustration of your Quirky idea, at least have the decency to add your modifications to the picture BEFORE you post it as part of the submission. Downloading a picture from online, and then just uploading it to Quirky is a very lazy way to do things. It's not inventing it's plagiarism.

@ Clinton, Michael M. and Kaari Jae: Spot On!

Rant: adding some text to a stock image you pull off the internet...and submitting it as your logo idea without disclosing the source of the image.

POOR FORM even if the image is "royalty free", and the use of non-original images is allowed by the QDS.

(Hey, I see a parallel here: I'm concerned about the originality of images [others are not]...just as others are concerned about the originality of names/taglines [and I'm not]).