I think a lot of you need to rememmber that Makerworls is a 3D printing site like printables and tailored at Bambu printers.
This site is aimed at those who 3d print models.
It is not Devianart, Booth, a 3D render database like Sketchfab, Grabcad etc
I found it funny in this thread a 2D designer was defending posting 2d pictures here thats what devianart and stuff is for not a 3d printing site.
There are many other sites out there that are more popular for showcasing your rendered models and 2d artwork.
While some may be enticed here to make money and get free stuff with the contents and points we need to be able to replicate the prints and maintain a quality level, else anyone will just slap uploads here and rendered where models don’t print half as good.
I agree that uploads should have a image as a bait and switch could happen where the actual model could be just a circle instead of the rendered image as a extreme.
Also with AI generation one could just post up those images when they half try to make them as a actual model.
Also the few comments that people said they were suprised people actually printed there mdoels and they worked when they thought they were too complex etc.
Thats funny this being a dedicated 3d printing site where Bambu are trying to curate the models that are ‘actually printable’ this isn’t just any rendered model database like sketchfab or grabcad as mentioned.
Ok someone has caught on, or did they just delete their own Spam? Looks like a really great way to Speed-level as they’re now Level 19 and look for the most part free to get on with their day modelling as a respected Member of MakerWorld. Scammy practice, why does this user still get to play with elevated numbers while they disrupted the New Model feed all day? @MakerWorld?
Is MakerWorld doing anything about people who repeatedly plagiarise other people’s work? I have been trying to get support to recognise that the third time an individual plagiarised my model also counts as plagiarism, but they insist that because he has CAD files that show he has either exactly copied my model himself or used Fusion’s paid features to import it, it doesn’t count as plagiarism, even though he had two prior clear attempts taken down.
Support is just ignoring my queries and refusing to respond to me at all now.
Like I noticed and mentioned earlier in the thread they tend to have/add other accounts to their followers. Also sometimes they even comment on each others profiles.
MakerWorld has not yet understood that “reconstructing from scratch” can still be copying or remixing from a legal perspective. If there is the slightest difference in the copied object, they usually reject copyright claims.
As a designer, I am very disappointed in maker world. Bambulab reached out to me to beta test maker world and I was one of the first designers to be invited to upload my designs. My designs were stolen and re uploaded almost as soon as makerworld was publicly available. Then makerworld did not even verify me even though my models were featured for some reason. This is why I was forced to remove my designs and stop uploading to makerworld. I hope in the future things become more stable here and I can reconsider uploading models to this platform again.
So we have to make concessions because you want to bulk upload models that you can’t be bothered printing. Thousands you say. I honestly can’t get past the entitlement.
