As many of you know, people are rating the model in the profile section. This can seriously disturb the rating. I have not yet found a thread about this so i thought i make one. I really think that the rating and profile system needs a big rework. And while in at it I also want to further mention user made profiles (cant get enough attention).
My suggestions are:
Make it extremely clear that the print profile rating are for the print quality/settings only and not for the model. No one should be able to miss understand this.
Make it easier and more clearly how to comment and give praise to the model itself. Maybe a two step system? First rate the profile, then the model?
Add the ability for the model owner to verify/accept/decline user made profiles. Im so fed up with all these zero-changes profiles made just to fish in points on popular models. NOT OK.
These things have probably been mentioned before. But i have had to many comments and low profile ratings due to model related stuff even though they have printed perfect.
And the user made profiles are just extremely infuriating…
Allow us to decline it, accept it but we keep the points, or accept it and give them the points. If someone does something cool or spends time on it, I’d personally reward them. If they do something that doesn’t take a lot of time but is a geniune change, then I keep the points. If they add nothing, the profile doesn’t get published.
Got one today that only changed the infill on a model that it does exactly 0 improvements to. Talked to him and he admitted that he just did it for the points. He was however a gentleman and deleted it.
praised a few because they made a nice improvement or change
asked a few to fix something wrong with the profile that people were complaining to ME about
reported MANY who were just farming points from my models with ZERO changes
one person made a mini version of some LED diffusers I put up specifically for tiny led strips and modified several elements to make sure it worked, I thought it was genius - I thanked them and praised them in the comments and DM’d them as well, in the message I asked if they wouldn’t mind changing the title from the generic auto-generated one to something more descriptive (they named the build plate is the only way I knew what it was) and instead of replying or updating it, they deleted the profile. I’m actually a little sad about that one, but if they don’t bring it back in a few weeks I’m going to use the idea and add it to my own model. Weird one there.
Got loads of 3-4 star reviews the last couple of days from people thinking they are rating the model. This is pretty troublesome. I am reporting then as misleading as they are damaging my profile rating. Do you have any thoughts on how to tackle this @MakerWorld ? Reviews are great a great addition to the whole system. But many users seems to not understand that they are rating the profile and not the model.
Use the report option next to each rating (three dots) and clearly state the issues are misinformation as the rating is model related rather than profile related.
Make sure the rating clearly indicates they did successfully print it and use that in the report.
Too big for my needs
Clearly shows there were no printing issues or it would have read…
Fell over during print and only the bottom half printed!
I commented on your other thread as well. I understand your frustration.
In my opinion it is unreasonable to think or expect users to rate just on profile. My guess is most users don’t really care that much. My expectation is that most users will rate based on their overall experience, regardless of the reasons that contributed to that experience. So, that is my mindset when I engage. If poor rating, I assume the person had a disappointing experience. With that mindset, I’m approaching from their side, not mine. I try and appreciate the fact that someone chose to print my model (there’s thousands of models and they chose mine), and they took time to ‘reach out’ by commenting and rating.
In regards to owners having control over profiles on their listing, I can’t agree more. Model owners, imo, should have control over this. No one cares about the model more than the creator, and some user submitted profiles create a negative experience and detract from the listing.