I have recently been involved in mediating a current issue regarding the Makerworld community guidelines. A creator (@overerq) posted his model on the topic #Usergames, which was created and maintained by an acquaintance of mine, Creative User. This caused a conflict because the model was not relevant to the User games, not only the topic but also the competition for which the topic was created. I will not elaborate on the actual discourse, but it did raise some propositions that I would like to suggest to the Bambu Lab community that would reduce the occurrence of such issues:
There should be written guidelines that dictate that a creator of a topic (the person who posted first on the topic, thus adding it to the list of available topics) is the owner and is free to set rules and regulations (within reason) that describe and establish the intent of the topic and may report irrelevant posts to the general Makerworld community moderators who can then confirm that such a post does not belong on the topic and should take them down or disassociate (remove the topic identifier from) the post.
Such moderators should also exist for the purpose of maintaining proposition 1.
What are your thoughts on this idea?
EDIT: You all make a good point about sniping common topics for ownership. How about a system where allocated posts should still be moderated, but for the relevance of the topic itself if such specificity allows, not a written rulebook from the OP?
How about no? I agree that posts should be relevant to their hashtags, but that’s like claiming that the first person to use a #tag on Instagram should choose which posts are allowed to use it. We don’t need self-appointed hashtag overlords and fiefdoms, thank you very much. That will simply result in people sniping common hashtags in order to profit from squatting on that hashtag. Any other people who might want to use that tag would be required to give the “Digital Dictator” downloads/boosts/promotion in order to keep their post up.
And might I add that the “User Games” that you’re so concerned about border on the lines of not being allowed by the @MakerWorld Terms of Service. Giveaways are not allowed, and this could be considered a giveaway as it has a prize and is specifically make to promote Creative User’s account, posts, and models.
I frankly didn’t even realize that it bundled things into a “topic”, I just saw it as hashtags and was rather confused as to why someone was trying to dictate how hashtags can or can’t be used. It’s a generic way to organize things though, and yeah.
I mean what, what if someone just wanted to post about their user game models and used that hash tag without realizing that your buddy already laid claim to it? It seems like it’d be easy for people to snipe common words and bully others over it, and is that what we really want?
Is the Fusion hash tag only for Fusion360?! What if someone made a model of a mythical fusion reactor, are they not allowed to use the fusion hash tag? What if someone made a 3d model of a ford Fusion? Are they not allowed to use the Fusion hash tag? What if Autodesk comes in and decides they want to dictate who and how the fusion hash tag is used, is that something we would want to allow? I mean, they created the software, so certainly that’d give them rights over it… right?
Everything about it is bad. Let me go over bad things in it:
The dude used a hashtag. That’s it. That’s about as far as his power goes.
Anybody can use any tag. “User games” is not officially recognized competition on MakerWorld and running such competition IMHO goes against MakerWorld guidelines.
Is nothing more than an user that used a tag.
Rules on MakerWorld are set by MakerWorld (bambu). Not some random user wanting to have a tag to himself.
Hell no. The “community” tab already suffers from lack of moderation and has been that way since day one. If it had proper moderation an unsanctioned competition would get snipped before it could took off and people getting invested in it.
Moderators should exist for the purpose of removing law & guidelines violating content.
One thing: It is not for his promotion, it is a user-led games. While it may bring attention to him and in turn his models, it is not directly advertising his content in any way; in fact it is quite the opposite, showcasing the creativity of others, much like the real Makerworld challenges.
Okay, good point. I am not necessarily invested in the idea, only wanted to propose it to the forum, and clearly it was a bad idea. Thank you for your assistance!