One of my followers just told me he’s hit a limit on being able to boost my designs, this is not something I was aware of, I knew that you could only give a maximum of 2 boosts on a single design, but it looks like there’s a limit also on the designer?
This makes very little sense to me, are you actively trying to discourage designers that post regularly? I fail to understand the goal and it seems to go against what the boost system is for, why is this limit applied? - and what is the actual limit?
Ever since the reward system was modified / nerfed, the boost where supposed to be the measure that would allow things to even out, on multiple occasions it was said that there was no efforts to reduce the overall amount of rewards to the creators - who fuel makerworld to be what it is today - but this is a measure that does precisely that
Please clarify your stance and explain clearly what are these limits that are being imposed, as rewards are a significant part of why models are shared for free for personal use to the community
Looking forward to hearing your clarifications @MakerWorld
I think the 5 boost limit has been there for a long time to prevent people from “exchanging” boosts to game the system.
This does discourage one somewhat from having a following and consistently uploading. I think Bambu should find a different way to prevent the cheating. Perhaps increasing the boost limit after certain milestones?
i understand wanting to prevent the system being gamed, but i don’t see this as the right way to do it, why impacting 100% of the users due to the minority of bad actors?
they should instead enact bans on accounts, there are many reports that even though there might be action on a model or a community post, the accounts remain there, able to continue those behaviours
there is no indications of limitations (not even the 2 per model), therefore this was never communicated.
if you’re correct @Crow_ck that is really penalising people that regularly create and share designs on makerworld, which is what makes the community grow, I fail to understand any objective other than reducing the amount of boosts users are able to receive, even though on more than one occasion @MakerWorld stated that this was not their intention.
So what changed in the meanwhile? are you no longer interested in incentivising platform growth? or you are only looking for occasional uploaders @MakerWorld ? This is your platform and you make the rules, which is fine, but we need to be made fully aware of them so that we can then decide how our own approach will be towards the platform, so allow me to tag @Tanklet@SupportAssistant so that we can get an official response and clarification
I think this is ok. Saw it myself when I thought to give another boosts to a very good model. But I guess it is to prevent fraud.
I bought a coffee instead.
Probably not a good idea. MW already has a reputation of playing favorites and making exceptions to rules based on account size, or some other ambiguous criteira. Adding exception to a simple rule can make it unfair for most designers.
I don’t have problem with the limit that MW sets, whether it’s 5 or 10 boosts per 12-month period, or a calendar year, as long as it’s applied evenhandedly.
This limitation has been in place for at least a year. I wish my avid supporters could boost me all year long too, but this is MWs rules to mitigate risk to continue to even offer boosts in the first place. Their system is far more exceptional than other sites. If you had a better opportunity elsewhere you should just pivot and take it. Continue to grow supporters, encourage them to keep downloading and commenting so you can build even more followers. It’ll be fine. You are fine. You have 23k+ followers already…
There were issue with people farming boosts. Making simple designs set to print slowly so they took long enough to generate boosts. The use others / other accounts to print said designs are boost again and again. This is one reason BL give out boosts once a week now instead of as and when, so they have time to spot this exploit.
