Right now I don’t think we know for sure. Some people say it’s gone, some people still have it. Some say it’s hidden after you get all 50 points, some say they can still see it even after they get 50 points.
I would think most of those people probably wouldn’t print the larger and more complex items to begin with. I can’t imagine it would motivate people to start printing those things especially when the reward for it (aside from actually having the model you printed) is taken away. Personally there’s so many items I tried printing because I was on edge of wanting to or not but I decide wth I’ll get points for it that I’ve actually really liked or found useful.
They have gone for me (UK). I’ve just completed a few ratings and noticed I hadn’t had any points arrive. I then checked my “points” page and the up to 50 points for rating models isn’t there any more.
It’s there for me in the US, there’s no rhyme or reason. Is it possible there’s a “lifetime maximum” number that’s not visible? I don’t think I’ve ever maxed on the monthly 50 and many months didn’t do it at all.
Gone for me too in the UK, shame really but bound to happen as the more printers they sell the more this points system costs them, wouldn’t surprised if it get totally shut down within a year due to cost…?? The only way I can see them sort keeping it going and that’s to start selling advert space on the makerworld website for totally unrelated things like food mixers or something that wouldn’t hurt their market share. ?? As the saying “All good things come to and end !”
I think we all lost here.
It’s not about the points only, there is a tendency not to rate profiles: Print&Go. So the are many profiles that are not rated, and the rating is a very valuable data for all the users, it helps dismissing bad profiles. And good profiles without ratings don’t deserve points as per the rules.
I was personally motivated to check new models, test-print them, and actively share feedback especially to newcommers - I found.
For me, it’s not only about the models themselves as such — it’s also about improving the descriptions, tagging, etc. in MakerWorld. That helps bring hidden treasures to the surface — often models I see are poorly tagged or undiscovered.
So maybe many models we will “not” see in future because of missing out to find them in search as motivation of rating decreases. @MakerWorld