It’s been said before but I’d like to say it again. There should be separate ratings for Models and Print Profiles.
Sometimes the Print Profile is trash but the model is great, and if I make my own print profile I’m very happy with it. In this case I would like to leave a positive review for the model and a negative review for the profile.
Sometimes the uploader of the model lies about what it’s features are, but the print profile itself is good and it printed fine. This is what prompted me to come here today.
Because the points people get for the “High Quality Print Profile” recurring rewards, people get VERY touchy about negative print profile reviews and I just had someone blow up on me today because I gave them a 2 star review for labeling something as being a French Cleat mount when it actually screwed into the wall directly.
On a side note, there needs to be some way to report it when this happens and there needs to be something in the Code of Conduct / Terms of Service regarding this. Lashing out at negative reviewers is super immature and not good for the platform.
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Agreed.
You appear to notice the difference between the model and the profile, yet you are disappointed that someone complained you rated their profile as a failure when you experienced no such print failure.
It wasn’t what was expected. You should have added this as a comment, not on the print profile/negative ratings as it printed without issue (you didn’t say otherwise), yet you penalised the print quality.
They were not in the wrong (in principle, I have no idea about the content of their response), you were, and I am sure with reflection you will agree.
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This is my point. The ONLY way to rate a model badly is to rate the print profile badly. There’s no thumbs down button or rating system for the model itself, and people don’t look at the comments first if it’s 5 stars.
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I think that many people confuse this and when they give rating, they rate the model, not the profile. I also received good ratings with the comment that the MODEL is great (usually no one writes about the profile).
At first it might be more confusing but it’s the only good solution.
Design rating system can be misused, us designers already suffering from the level of inexperienced users, just shoving 1 star reviews (as if they are using amazon) on print profile without contacting the creator for the issue 1st, that is because they don’t understand the fundamentals of owning a 3d printer and their printer not being maintained/prepared properly. (only talking about well made TESTED print profiles)
So…the model rating will be simply unfair and unjustified as not everyone share the same taste, that is why there is a like button not a dislike button, you have no idea the amount of haters can just attack you with that just because it is easy to do, to get your design earn less view, downloads, points.
the current system is more than sufficient, good design = a like…not good design = no like and move on (less like will have less interaction from the users).
imagine winning a contest and you get Dislikes from other contestants because they didn’t win, or even raids of dislikes from certain cults or whatever groups who would go against your designs.
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