Much appreciated, but you are kind of stepping all over the point I’m trying to make here. 
Hm, maybe I’ll get my missing 7 5 prints to finally join the Exclusive Program… it’s only 2 grams 
(…don’t mind me, just thinking out loud… not a call to action)
At least you’re being honest about it… and honesty is a virtue. Can I boost this post somehow… need the Discourse Forum manual.
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I started the Reddit post on this parallel topic. My issue was not one of taking away from young designers or trying to discourage them. I welcome everyone’s involvement and creativity.
My ire was aimed at someone using their child as the model profile picture and not showing the model on it’s merits. I think the brace you designed is pretty amazing and you earned the recognition for it.
Looking at the OP above when the whole premise was a picture of a cute kid holding a rocket is the basis for a model’s success on this platform, then I do take an issue with it. The Mario Cappy shoe holder is an extreme example of manipulation and gaming the system. A 10 year old did not design that.
When my kid was younger and in cub scouts, every year there was an event called the pinewood derby. Every child was given a block of wood and some nails and had to design and shape a car to race on a gravity assisted track. 90% of the models in that event were built and made by the Dads. It was very rare for a kid’s model to win.
The stuff above is an analog to that event with much lower effort.
It’s actually very true. I just got my learner’s permit for driving, and am working on getting my license. I’ve been saving up money from the exclusive points to hopefully help buy me my first car!
Vroom vroom
I thought about 3d a full car, but I don’t want to cause @MalcTheOracle any more unnecessary strain by draining the world’s filament supplies again.
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Dude. Haha. I remember stuff like this. Like you could tell who had their dad helping, and who didn’t. When I did it, I got 3rd, but got bumped to 2nd after 1st place was disqualified. It was the troop leaders daughter (She wasn’t even part of the troop), and the father had built the car for her.
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You finally admit you were the cause!!!
soon enough you will see thousands of models creat by 10 years old everywhere , lol
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MakerWorldKids 
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If it’s anything like youtube kids, we’ll start getting… uhh I don’t even want to imagine the twisted things we’ll end up with.
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What are you doing in YouTubeKids?
I dont know why you have so much free time to write all these novels that are irrelevant to my point. The point is you doing it DOES NOT COMPARE TO WHAT APPEARS TO BE A 6 YEAR OLD CHILD COULD DO… You seem to really crave attention no matter how you can get it, but im not the guy to give it to you, therefore im just going to mute you so you dont keep bothering me with the nonsense… I made my point!
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the only person I know work at YouTube block YouTube in his own house in order to keep his kids away form YouTube , lol
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I know, i thought it was hilarious to boost to add to the sarcasm 
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That would be great though. I agree with the poster above who said Makerworld should make a category for kids models.
I see my 9yo daughter and her friend creating with Tinkercad and getting extra motivation from the comments on Makerworld. The children learn so so fast and they can do a lot with tinkercad. More children doing coding, designing, maths etc is awesome!
I don’t agree with putting their face online with the design picture and saying a model is made by a child when it is clearly not (like the shoe thing or the rocket in fusion).
A makerworld kids section with models from teens so they can learn is a plus. They should remove the whole boost option there though!
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Make sure to add a futuristic knitted musical Corcelain attachment point for a passthrough Monster Hunter egg made out of cardboard packaging from a map!
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No sh 
t 
I’m afraid you’re right. And I’m allergic to both flexi legs and boost farming.
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One came to our regional Derby with smoke and LED lights. Supposedly made by a 9 year old…
Here’s a kid friendly design you could practice with…
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While I haven’t had a chance to read through all of the comments here, I wanted to share my thoughts for consideration.
I believe that model titles, descriptions, and cover images should not include terms like “charity” or similar. I’m all for helping others, but this site is not intended to be a platform for fundraising. There are many other sites, such as GoFundMe, for raising money for a good cause. If you want to design great models and buy printers to donate to an organization, you can do so without calling it out in the model title, description, or cover images.
I think the same applies to leveraging children in titles or cover images to gain more boosts. The terms of service state that anyone under 13 years of age may not access the site.
As others may have mentioned, it’s too easy to exploit or use social engineering to gain points with low-value models, which is not aligned with the best-in-class experience we expect on MakerWorld.
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