The reward system is a huge benefit. It doesn’t make the hours spent “worth it” but it’s really not about the money. If it was I would just do small coding jobs as a side hustle on fiver.
What it does do is provide small incentives to help motivate people to invest in skills that help grow the 3D printing community. I think there is room to improve the system but if it went away entirely I think we would see a big drop in the amount of quality free content.
Bambu has been nothing except top notch to me and if it weren’t for them, I wouldn’t be here. Makerworld certainly got me off my bum to start taking modelling seriously. I’ve done well enough and the rewards have been fantastic.
I totally agree, finally there’s a company that’s sharing the love beyond just a few youtubers that pretty much get a new machine monthly.
“> If an upload lacks images showcasing the actual printed model, it will be taken down from our website.”
Help! What should I do? I can’t afford any 3d printer that costs more than 50$. So I came here. Now I’m feeling hopeless again.
check your local library for a maker space. Lots of them have printers you can use to print your files. Ask in facebook groups for someone to print your file is another option. I’ve printed a few things for people locally that asked on facebook.
That is smart I think I remember seeing a poster regarding that sorta thing at Barnes & Noble
I very much appreciate the MakerWorld system. I’ve been using/learning CAD for a couple of years now. I never really took it seriously until I got my X1C and was introduced to MakerWorld. It’s motivated me to actually try and make more complex parts and learn new techniques. I love being at the place where I can realize my initial reason for getting into 3D printing, making my own parts from scratch 
The AI for Makerworld is BS too though. I litterally just created my account. Uploaded two files, was off my computer for the entire rest of the day, and when i woke up this morning my account was banned for having downloads that appeared to be spammy? I have nothing to do with it other than being the maker of the upload and I get punished for it with a one year ban? Lets see what support has to say about this.
Hi, I signed up on makerworld in January after buying a p1s. After about a month I was banned for a year unable to understand why. I’ve been trying to get unblocked via ticket for 15 days but there’s no way. Then by chance I see the link to my profile reported in this post. Well I have nothing to do with this whole story, I created the profile to download the models and I uploaded 4 things in a month which also received prints. I attach the print. Before making a report, try to verify what you say goats. You got me banned for no reason and makerworld support doesn’t even manually check my profile data. Surely the next printer will be a prusa if this is the level of support.
So what original created by you models were taken down?
Count me amongst the users banned by (I assume) automated tools, incorrectly. Over the weekend I decided to finally go around the house, take pictures, and upload some of my nicer creations to the platform. While I was in the middle of uploading some files I noticed one of them was already gaining some downloads/likes, which felt great! I saw the model was on the trending screen so I figured I got lucky with the algorithm. I wake up the next morning and my account is banned. Apparently my upload was targeted for promotion by bots, without my knowledge. I’ve gone back and forth with an appeal now and gotten nothing but stock replies in response.
The experience thus far has really soured me on Bambu as a company. I was excitedly planning on buying a P1S in the next month or 2, but this has me reconsidering.
That’s how I do it and I’m sure many people who understand something about it because they’ve been dealing with it for years.
It once happened to me when I got the printer new that I tried to print a model that was somewhere at the top of the pages. I immediately noticed that it was a great idea. After printing about 1kg of filament I had to throw it away because the parts didn’t fit together.
Another time I downloaded something and it took several hours to print. After rearranging the parts one by one and adjusting the printing parameters, everything was finished in a fraction of the time.
That’s why I almost never download anything from Makerworld and just print it.
But there are still many beginners who are not that experienced and don’t see it. whether something is “real” or perhaps cannot be printed at all.
Things get worse when models, like the one I saw recently, are given a seal of approval by Bambulab (probably simply because they look great in the images rendered by an expensive program), but there was no image of a printed model, not even in the comments; instead there was just a real landscape image into which the rendered model was placed to give the impression that it was a real photograph.
So what to do now? They suggest simply ignoring such models and not printing them. Since beginners cannot distinguish between what is real and fake, it would only be logical to ignore all models. This means that Makerworld no longer offers content/print models.
That is also a solution, but I think it would be better if Bambulab sorted out the things and removed them from the public. Then they can at least offer content that is “real” for all.
Dann machen Sie das Modell privat. Ihre Zielperson kann es dennoch laden.
Hi, my account was banned without putting down the models. Banned because reported in this post I don’t know how. I had 4 models of which I have the drawings on fusion, I bought the printer in January and these 4 models brought me 1500 points in 40 50 days.
In addition to the downloads, the 4 models also had prints, then I’ll paste you the statistics and tell me if they are fake download movements. I don’t know how those fake accounts linked to mine ended up, I certainly printed a lot that month, I had just bought my p1s. Now I have sold everything and bought a prusa. In my opinion, the makerworld project will fail when they stop giving things away. I’m fine with printables but I found this post by chance and I wanted to say that I have no connection with those fakes. That’s in the past now, but I’m an honest person in life and I wanted to reply. I hear of users being banned on first access to makerworld without doing anything and makerworld is fine with it, I also see people publishing models without prints and not everyone is asked by makerworld to respect the rules. Before selling the printer I asked for verification of my account data through a human operator but the usual automatic response said that I was banned and that was it. For bambulab the customer is a number and positive numbers can then become negative. I will never buy Bambulab stuff again and I don’t even want to go back to makerworld, but then again I was unjustly banned like other people.
I can’t attach the screenshots but for example a model has 40 downloads and 5 prints, 38 downloads 5 prints, 69 downloads 15 prints, 50 downloads 17 prints, 83 downloads 34 prints, 35 downloads 2 prints. Do you think these are fake numbers? If I wanted to be fake I would have downloaded the coupon every 524 points but instead I left them there because I wanted to get something good later.
Now my models are on printables, I only put 4 on makerworld to try and I’m happy like that. I already received a free reel by earning points with real downloads. I close and say goodbye.
Check out the #1 spot in “Trending”. An inexplicable model has received more than 800 downloads in 5 hours (and counting NOW) and 0 successful printings. This illegal act of obtaining rewards makes other serious creators a joke.
Its happening more frequently and at this rate people are giving up reporting this stuff because they’re hiding in the middle of genuine Makers. The issue is innocent people are getting ticked off as spam and thats going to create more loss than the original problem. There has been no “action” from where I’m standing. I used to enjoy browsing the new upload feed but no more, even the trending has become useless as you’ve pointed out.
Something else I have started to notice with the constant reupload scammers. Is that some are reuploading files to printables and thingiverse so when they post over here they can link back to that version which they changed the CC license. So not only are they causing havoc over here they are dragging it to other platforms as well.
As for me reporting, I’ve cut greatly back. It’s trying to plug the hole in the dike with your finger when the whole dam is broken. Plus if I did report everything I’d end up looking like a bot and prob would catch a ban myself.
Maybe I should apply to bambu, wondering if they are hiring for makerworld support as well? 
I have noticed they’re daisy-chaining accounts like this too and swapping to make things look legit. I spread the reporting love too, I’m bordering on a shadow-ban
They need round the clock moderation if nothing solid is coming from AI. I’ve got time to donate if there’s an opening.
