Same principle as on ebay, where you can leave feedback on a seller's reliability.
Would be nice to review how a contest holder has done in the past, considering feedback and payment etc.

Designers spend their lives to create for 99designs, so they deserve be awarded for 2nd and 3rd places.

All contests should be guaranteed as there no work without payment, designers are not a "crowd" or "herd", we are humans and deserve payment for our hard work.

Maybe we can have a friend list in our message sections and should be able to add any designer as a friend or some thing.

Final Round MUST be GUARANTEED. If Contest Holder want to Refund the money they have to do before The Final Round.

A forum where designers and contest holders can post and comment in threaded discussions, separate to the contest section.

Here is my suggestion to protect designs.

All designs should have a 99design automatic watermark on it in and only the contest owner should be able to see the design with no watermark.

This will prevent public to steal design.

Hope this will be implement.

Also, all past contest should not appear in the search engine. All contest should not appear on Google.

Thanks

This isn't a really big thing , but what if the "Read Brief" will just collapse/ expand when you click it? No need to load a new page?

P.S. or is there a setting for this already but I haven't noticed it?

I am sick and tired of all of these fake profiles! You will be winning at one point and "someone" who just got a profile will win on their FIRST try! This has happened a lot on this site. Someone (I Think) from the company or a friend will see everybody's logo and make something, if not exactly like it, then extremely close to yours! Also after that contest, they never even log back on. I think this needs to be stopped and fast! I hate losing to fake profiles don't you?

I think CH who have abandoned and unhealhty contests should be given three chances afterwhich they will be banned from the site. I participated in a water contest recently and the guy seems to have done a runner (his other contest is alos the same)

Include Payoneer prepaid debit cards as a payment method for non-US resident users.

Payoneer cards allow designers to withdrawn cash at local ATMs near their homes and to use the cards anywhere a Mastercard is accepted.

After reading the recent article about designabot on sitepoint, I wanted to make sure I remembered his username. I went to his portfolio, but there's no way for the CH to "bookmark" or "favorite" a designer so they can later invite the designer to a contest.

I think that contest holders who abandon their contests should not be able to request refunds. It's one thing if they are actively participating, giving feedback and star ratings. But if they just abandon the contest, I don't think they should have the right to ask for their money back. The contest, in such an instance, failed largely at their own hand.

Basically I think that having your contest section in your profile separated into "active contests" you are in and "ended/won" contests could keep things a little cleaner and let us keep track of what contests we should keep an eye on a little better.

I am a CH and would like the option to tip designers that I do not choose but were instrumental in the process.

The case is, 99Designs takes a HUGE commission from designers. For example, designers may get only $300 out of $495 fee that CH pays (in most simple case out of $295 fee the designer will get only $200). That's a 40% commission. Contest Holders should be informed about this also, at least.

A system that tracks a designers standing in the community rewarding positive participation and punishing negative participation.

Let a CH leave comment and rating about a designer after the contest is over so other CHs can see if they designer is easy to work with during and after the process. Maybe allow CHs to rate or comment on all Designers, mostly to give props to designers that have tried hard.