This would be fine with me. My goal with the community tab is to get people who’ve liked my models in the past the ability to download more of them if they choose. Not to spam/beg for boosts and downloads
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I was requesting the feature they turned into community.
My original idea was the ability for those that follow me to see what I was sharing or going to share, the ability to ask my followers (not everyone) which of several potential models should I create next (a poll).
The benefit was for the followers to get something of use and for me to be able to engage.
The 
show it has turned into could have been anticipated by an amoeba.
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Same. (except polls)
One “easy” change in terms of “for you” section of community tab for it to be less 
could be for it to have selection criteria of “creators whose models I’ve printed and/or liked and/or boosted”. That would be different from “following” since I follow some creators that I haven’t yet printed stuff (but plan to! I swear!).
As for why not also collected stuff: I have a collection of “bad stuff” that I’ve reported and despite not getting “report successful” notification it’s always cool to see the number of items there getting lower.
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I have the same.
The number is annoyingly high.
That might be a stress on the database depending on the way the DB was designed. I doubt it was built with a future ability to easily find those items in a complex query.
All information is searchable, provided a decent index was added, but, the more tables it includes (assuming it is table based) or object tables (if designed based on objects) the more complex and taxing the search becomes, then multiply that by the amount of usage at anyone time could stress it to breaking point. There are ways to mitigate this, but, that usually needs built in at the start of the structure.
The inability to get to the model from the print history page is an incredible oversight. I’m nit sure this is what was meant, but still a weird omission given all the data is available at that point.
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It doesn’t “need” to be build the right way from the start, but dealing with technical debt is never fun and it’s better to do it right from the start. However it’s not always possible. How many times a CEO or some other important person comes over and goes “hey guys, I’ve got a brilliant idea!” and it changes the product direction 167.3 degrees 3 months before deadline…
You missed out the qualifier in that sentence and before in earlier paragraphs.
I didn’t say anywhere it was impossible, just harder to change direction when little future thought was built in from the start.
This is why I often built in more flexibility into large-scale database designs I created from the start, making assumptions on future needs based on my decades of experience in the field.
Change is always harder than pre-planning. Pre-planning doesn’t always need to know what will come only assume what might come. Using database normalisation and object tables with a focus on access and reduction filters can greatly mitigate these future changes.
In my experience, most db design is based on the day one needs as few have built databases for decades and even if they have, rarely do more to allow future changes p.
Maybe my experience in government, health, finance and apps with millions of active users have jaded me to what others come up with.
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I went on a report spree the other day, as it makes no sense to have/see millions of posts repeatedly from the same 5 people flooding the tab begging for follow for follow, download and boost and scam contests.
Looks like all this reporting only just got me shadow banned from the community tab.
Now, none of my new posts show anymore, they show for me when logged into my account, but if I log out, my posts do not show, I asked a few other designers to check and I don’t show for them either, but the non stop beggars still show.
It is what it is at the end of the day. Do better @MakerWorld .
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Make a post with a picture of you, doing duck face, selfie mode, while in dubai. Then call it a day and makerworld will allow that for sure. 
I think that right now makerworld is having an entity crisis of some sort. They don’t even know what they want to be to be honest.
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Ok, you have a solid point there. I just checked out the job listing because I do fit the requirements, and have years of customer service, etc. But now that I’ve read it, and they list prior customer service experience as just a “nice to have” and provide one of the most vague job descriptions around with no pay range or real concept of how it will work, I think I’m understanding why moderation and reviews are appearing so inconsistent and…almost like some random guy somewhere makes the decision punitively at times?
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So @MakerWorld is trying to say I am not shadow banned. Would you mind taking a look and seeing if you see my current poll post today from the main community tab? Its just a post poll asking if you can see my poll.
I tried to add screenshots and images to this post, but i see its not allowed.
https:// imgur. com/a/6tT9vtR
Would anyone else take a look?
Did you go to my profile then click community tab? Or did you click on the main community button above? Could you screen shot it to show LA 3D’s post under mine?
I had to go into your profile. In the “for you” page you won’t appear to me since your models are not what i normally look. It’s different for everyone, i think.
Edit: also, that account, LA 3D is blocked by me so it won’t appear in my feed. I got tired of polls. Now a poll that appears for me gets a block for them
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I am not sure about that, But I am sure that my posts are not showing in the community tab, you HAVE to go to my profile in order to see them. If you are able to see LA 3D’s post but not mine, then I would think that is proof.
Here is how I see it.
I can go to the main community tab, and see my post, and LA 3D;s post is just below mine.
Now if I log out, or I ask a few designer buddies to look, they only see LA 3D’s post and not mine. in the example below.
You will see mine is missing. So in fact I am not showing for anyone out side of visiting my profile.
You sought an opinion I think, this is mine.
I would hope this sort of poll choice doesn’t continue to be added for long.
It should be focused on the models you create.
Something like these.
- “Should I create x or y next?”
- “My next something could be round or square, which would you prefer?”
- “I was thinking I would print my next model related to Christmas should be in BL PLA Basic, BL PLA Galaxy or BL PLA Sparkle filaments for my next my next photo shoot, what do you think?”
Always keep it related
I just worked out what you wanted when you stated this.
That LA 3D person is spamming, I haven’t scrolled back to the time in your screenshot yet, but, the LA 3D person was the first to show up.
Then someone else could check that for you. Read above your post. I can’t see that LA 3D guy because he is blocked for the reasons i said in my post.
I added that poll in order to determine if my posts were showing, I was not adding it to upset you about the content.
This was only added to see if people can see my post outside of visiting my profile. If you want to be helpful screen shot my post and posts under it, so I can see that you didn’t just visit my profile to see it.
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I saw that you had him blocked after I sent my reply. I see in my screenshot there is a moon studio do you have him blocked? does he show?
Anyway I won’t take up any more of your time and appreciate the help.
Went all down until the time of the post in the image. That moon studio does not appear to me and he is not blocked. Again, the “For you” page is somewhat customized for each person and because of that it won’t appear to everyone the same. Do you know tiktok, instagram, facebook, etc.? It’s almost the same, every person gets a “recommendation” based on what that person likes or watches most of the time.